Description
Other Names:
Glutamine / Levoglutamines / Glumin / Glutamic Acid Amide / Glutamic Acid 5-Amide / L-Glutamide / Cebrogen
What is it?
Amino acids are the building blocks that make up protein structures, such as animal muscle tissue.
Sources:
- Beef
- Cabbage
- Cheese
- Milk yogurt
- Pork
- Poultry
- Raw parsley
- Raw spinach
Main Uses:
- The brain and body’s major fuel source.
- It is metabolised by the body into Glutamic acid.
- Nutritionally beneficial for a healthy immune system, proper brain function, protein synthesis, which leads to increased muscle mass and nitrogen retention which decreases muscle breakdown and recovery time after exercise.
Other Traditional Uses:
- Arthritis
- Auto-immune diseases
- Brain function
- Connective tissue diseases
- Depression
- Development disabilities
- Exercise – quicker recovery time
- Fatigue
- Fibrosis
- Immune system
- Impotence
- Intestinal disorders
- Muscle breakdown decrease
- Muscle mass increase
- Nitrogen retention
- Peptic ulcers
- Protein synthesis
- Schizophrenia
- Senility
Deficiency:
- Because glutamine can be synthesized by the body from the amino acid glutamate, glutamine deficiency is not very common. Nevertheless, individuals undergoing severe physical trauma due to infection or extensive burns typically have low glutamine levels. These individuals often exhibit a weakened immune system and heightened intestinal permeability (also called “leaky gut”), which suggests that an inadequate supply of glutamine is associated with reduced immune function and increased intestinal permeability.
- Glutamine deficiency results in hyperplasia of the intestinal absorptive lining & dysfunction of the intestinal immune system.
- Scientists also believe that deficiency in L-glutamine may be linked to gastrointestinal disorders such as irritable bowel syndrome, Crohn’s disease, and colon inflammation.
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