L-Glutamine L-Glutamine is the most abundant amino acid in the bloodstream and makes up 30–35 percent of the amino acid nitrogen in your blood.
Description Overview
L-Glutamine is taken by mouth for sickle cell disease to improve nutrition and help people recover from surgery, injuries, and burns. It also serves as a secondary fuel source for cellular energy and helps create other important compounds, including glucose and purines (the building blocks of DNA).
Benefits
1. Improves athletic performance and recovery from endurance exercise
2. Promotes muscle growth and decreases muscle wasting
3. Boosts brain health
4. Burns fat and improves diabetes
Some application
Clinical trials of L-Glutamine supplementation in critical illness, surgical stress, and cancer have shown benefits with regard to mortality, length of stay, and infectious morbidity.