My Supplements Corner: Glutamine

GLUTAMINE:

What You Need To Know

Glutamine is an Amino Acid. It's the most abundant one in your body. It can be found in your skeletal muscles, lungs, brain, blood and liver. Because your body can make it, it's a non-essential amino acid. Glutamine increases protein synthesis. Even if it's not part of the 8 essentials amino acids, glutamine is one of the most important amino acids, especially for athletes.

Glutamine is used by your body when you're ill and when you're injured. It supports and regulates your immune system. It has been shown to reduce infections. Glutamine seems to also have a positive impact on heart disease. Glutamine will also raise HGH level.

One other major benefit of Glutamine is in the prevention of muscle loss. It's been used for Cancer patients, HIV patients and burn patients. It helps to speed up the recovery of the patient and limit the muscle loss.

Athletes will tremendously benefit from Glutamine. There are numerous positive effects for the use of Glutamine in sports. Glutamine prevents muscle breakdown and helps to produce new muscle tissue. It will control the lactic acid level during physical activity; this will help you workout longer. Glutamine has been proven to be very useful to both strength athletes and endurance athletes.

Sources of Glutamine:

Glutamine can be found in pork, dairy products, chicken, beef, cabbage, spinach, beans, fish, and eggs. Now when training intensely there is a good chance that you might not get enough to meet your needs. Adding it as a supplement would be good. Take it in capsule form or powder. Personally, I like the powder version, it's easy to add to your post workout shake.

How much should you take?

When it comes to how much to take, this decision will depend on its  purpose. The dosage can be from 2g to 15g a day.  When working out, the typical recommendation is 5g post workout; at that moment your body needs to repair and recover. Another moment in a day where Glutamine will be very helpful is at bed time.

Conclusion

If you're thinking about taking an amino acid, you should strongly consider Glutamine. You're training hard and really don't want that work to go to waste. Taking it will have some significant effects on your training. Because of the positive results from research and it's popularity, there is no doubt that Glutamine will help you achieve your fitness and sport goals.