Okay... So, in my last post about what I did during Insanity, I talked about using Glutamine for my joints. I was wrong (thanx for pointing that out Manny... LOL) and I wanted to clarify some things. I got the wrong stuff from the GNC people and that is why it is always good to do research on your own! I should have been taking Glucosamine... But, Glutamine isn't bad at all... Here is what I got:
L-glutamine is a sugar... A carbohydrate. Not to be confused with table sugar. Human beings and all animals depend upon specific sugars (carbohydrates) for proper cellular communication. These specific sugars (carbohydrates) are what your cell enzymes use as zip codes to know where cell parts and cells belong as well as recognizing friend or foe. Enzymes are made out of a series of protein molecules. Glutamine is a known dietary enzyme or protein. It is also a substrate used for DNA synthesis.
Glutamine comes from eggs, beets, spinach, etc... and activates as a benefit for the human body in healing and injury and regeneration of bones and tissues. Therefore, the body not only uses enzymes for cellular signals that have to do with replacing new tissues and destroying old scarring and aging tissues... The body also uses specific sugars/carbohydrates for cellular communication that is far more complicated than what enzymes can do. These specific sugars sit on top of the protein stems on cells for cellular communication. The protein stems are enzymes. The antennae or braille that the cells use are the sugars on top of them. Neither one will cancel each other out as they are food molecules that should be a part of our naturally occurring diet. Primitive man had plenty of these to function optimally, but modern man does not... So we have to supplement.
If you take more Glutamine or Glucosamine, your body will just flush out what it cannot use and innately know what it can use. So, if you can eat an apple and an orange, you can eat these supplements, together. Both are intrinsically different, but both have a symbiotic function. Symbiotic means they have a working relationship.
L-glutamine sources vary in the product. If you are allergic to shellfish, make sure you get L-glutamine from plant sources. It comes from a microscopic crustacean species to wheat or corn. Not all products have purity. So, you have to spend more to get the pure and effective product. It's about quality, not quantity. So, to be sure, you get a product with GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices), which is FDA standards, however... GMP's do ignore synergistic affects of products, but they don't ignore product claims. This means, that if a product is of GMP standards, you don't need to make things up and you are getting a high quality food supplement. Synergistic, meaning... Does the product need a specific nutritional catalyst in order for the enzyme or carbohydrate or vitamin to work? Does one nutrient cancel another one out...????
FYI - LDL is your anti inflammatory hormone. It does not cause heart disease; it is a response hormone to something that is injured, which is why it is high in the presence of an autoimmune disease, such as heart disease. Statin drugs are used to lower LDL, which again, is an anti inflammatory hormone and LDL does not trigger heart disease. It is the affect of a cause.
So, it makes sense that when there is an injury, your liver manufactures LDL, and your enzyme L-glutamine is triggered to help synthesize the DNA needed for cell repair, so both would be present... But, L-glutamine is NOT the cause of LDL anti inflammatory hormone response. It is triggered for cell repair.
... And that's about it... I got this off Google...
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