Glutamine

Glutamine is found in skeletal muscle and is one of the 20 Amino Acids that are vital to sustain life.

Glutamine supplements can be beneficial for anyone who exercises, its use first started in medicine. Glutamine supplements are used for a variety of reasons, the primary one is for surgery as it helps to reduce the time needed to heal after a surgery. A second function of the utilization of Glutamine supplements in medicine is that it helps patients who are in catabolic state of illness or injury, Doctors use this supplement to prevent the breakdown of muscle, which is why it has been an important supplement in the exercise world. The supplement helps to gain and maintain more muscle mass, as well as restore glycogen(the fuel of muscle) in muscles when their is a lack of carbohydrates(source of energy) in the body.

Combining Glutamine with your protein intake will help in muscle recovery after your workouts.

Another beneficiary advantage of Glutamine is that it prevents tissue damage by free radical cells. Free Radical Cells (FRC) -- are unstable molecules that cause the formation of cancer. The body(healthy) can prevent these FRC from functioning or the body will simply kill any cells that have been affected by the FRC before they can multiply.

Glutamine is a cell volumizer and stimulates growth hormone.

Growth Hormone is a polypeptide hormone that stimulates cell growth, cell reproduction, and cell regeneration. There are some claims that as a result of exercise, growth hormone levels increase in the body...this in turn helps to decrese body fat, increase muscle mass, increase bone density, increase energy, skin tone and texture, sexual function as well as improve the immune system. THATS WHY EXERCISE IS SO IMPORTANT

Doses

10 - 20g after working out
5g on off days.

Dietary Sources of Glutamine
Dietary sources

Dietary sources of L-glutamine include beef, chicken, fish, eggs, milk, dairy products, wheat, cabbage, beets, beans, spinach, and parsley. Small amounts of free L-glutamine are also found in vegetable juices

Glutamine is known as a non-essential amino acid, as our body can synthesize this amino acid. There is an abundant source that naturally occurs in the body and is found circulating in the blood stream and stored in our muscles(skeletal). It becomes important to take this through food or supplements when you're sick or injured. And as strength training exercise tear the muscles at a microscopic level, Glutamine becomes vital to help in patching these muscles up to recover for your next workout.