Indeed, if there is a methionine deficit, homocysteine can be re-methylated to form methionine, and if there is an adequate amount of methionine, homocysteine is used to produce cysteine (161)
Many nutrients have their action INSIDE the cell, which means that testing serum and blood levels just give us an indication of what may be available but that is assuming everything else is working properly: cellular activity, enzyme activity, receptor activity, etc
On the contrary, chronic exposure of humans to thiol-binding elements, such as arsenic, causes a decrease in the circulating concentration of glutathione and in a shift of the balance of disulphide, oxidized, to thiol, reduced, glutathione towards more oxidized status [27]
Volume 2 Egg Safety and Nutrional Quality
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Robert's intragastric alcohol-induced gastric lesion model as a useful standard for BPC 157 cytoprotection/organoprotection studies