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Glutamine Peptide: The TruthYou may have read the ads. They claim glutamine peptide is superior to regular glutamine--by a factor of ten. And therefore you get a real bargain when you pay only three times more for glutamine peptide than for regular glutamine. Unfortunately, these claims are false. The glutamine peptide scam is another example of misusing data to support an unsupportable claim. There seems to be an epidemic of that, these days. Apply the "logic" used here to analyzing the difference between fruit and fruit juice. The body absorbs juice more quickly, but that doesn't make the juice better. In fact, you are merely creating a "short circuit" in the digestive process and creating a larger insulin response. You should not drink fruit juices for this reason. And, you should not take glutamine peptide for this reason. It simply does not help you. John Scott, CEO of Nitro, has graciously provided the technical details, for those who want more information:
The question: L-Glutamine
vs. Glutamine Peptides what works better? About the same with
current evidence. Therefore, for most people, they will not experience a
benefit of greater growth by taking a peptide form. It will generally just
be more expensive. So I would recommend taking advantage of the better
value and using my Nitro
Micronized L-Glutamine.
Peptides are
different from free form amino acids because they are basically 2 or more
amino acids (building blocks of proteins) which are chemically linked to
each other. Your body naturally takes whole proteins (made of long chains of
aminos) and breaks them down through a natural hydrolyzation process to
produce smaller and smaller peptides so they can be absorbed. Free form
aminos like regular L-glutamine are just the single amino acid. The glutamine dipeptides are typically L-glutamine bonded with either L-Alanine or L-Glycine. So you can look at this two ways as either a positive or a negative.
Facts: The maximum size amino
chain your body can absorb is a Nearly 75% of ingested
protein is absorbed across the intestine in the form of peptides. Why?
It is more efficient or
“faster” for your body to absorb A
problem with Peptides in my opinion: Since amino acid peptides
are more absorbed more quickly they may produce a greater insulin reaction.
Depending on the timing this can be good or bad. Post workout is OK.
However, most of the rest of the time you want to stabilize insulin
reactions to avoid potential blood sugar fluctuations and subsequent
possible body fat accumulation. Research: Other than speed of
absorption, studies have shown that glutamine and glutamine dipeptides exert
similar positive metabolic effects.
The anticatabolic/anabolic
action of both glutamine and glutamine dipeptides can be explained by their
effect in sparing skeletal muscle L-glutamine stores. Most of the
L-glutamine in the body is synthesized in skeletal muscle, where it is also
stored. Under conditions of metabolic stress, skeletal muscle can be
depleted of its L-glutamine, which is used for metabolic activities of other
tissue/cells, such as enterocytes and lymphocytes (feeding the immune system
to protect your main antioxidant glutathione).
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