Test your
Histidine
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Histidine
Explanation: Histidine is an essential amino acid, meaning the human body cannot make it on its own, but needs it from foods like meat, fish, eggs, beans, dairy, and whole grains. Histidine is important for making proteins, and other vital substances like histamine, which helps with immune response, digestion, and sleep. It also plays a role in producing hemoglobin, the molecule in red blood cells that carries oxygen.
Test purpose: Testing its levels helps detect metabolic issues, assess nutrition, and monitor conditions that affect red blood cells or protein metabolism.
- Assess amino acid metabolism: Abnormal histidine levels can indicate issues with how the body processes amino acids. Low histidine levels may indicate poor protein intake or malnutrition.
- Detect metabolic conditions like histidinemia, a rare genetic disorder, cause high levels of histidine in the blood.
Other information about this test: Mayo Clinic, Mount Sinai, UCSF Health, ARUP Laboratories, Johns Hopkins
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