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Do high doses of glutamine really help you build more muscle?
Glutamine is frequently promoted as an anti-catabolic supplement, supposedly
helping to speed up muscle growth by reducing the rate at which your muscles
"lose" protein.
Although there's a strong theoretical basis for the use of supplemental
glutamine, very few studies have examined what happens when high doses
of glutamine (more than 50 grams daily) are combined with a regular resistance
training program.
To shed some light on the issue, a Canadian research team recently tested
the effects of high-dose glutamine supplementation during a six-week resistance
training program [2]. Before we review the results, it's important to
understand a little more about glutamine, and why many consider it such
an important nutrient.
Glutamine
Glutamine is an amino acid synthesized from glutamate. Because various
tissues in your body, such as muscle and fat, can make glutamine, it has
been classed as a nonessential amino acid. However, some have reclassified
glutamine as conditionally essential, mainly because your body's need
for glutamine exceeds its ability to make its own under certain conditions.
During periods of intense exercise, for example, blood levels of glutamine
can drop. Your body then "borrows" glutamine from other parts
of your body to make up for the deficit. This is the basis on which glutamine
is promoted as a supplement to build muscle. Because skeletal muscle is
an abundant source of glutamine, supplemental glutamine is supposed...
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