Glutamine – the most important amino acid for bodybuilders
Published August 15, 2011 | 
Glutamine – the most important amino acid for bodybuilders
For tens of years, the scientists have marveled at the variety of functions and possible of application of various amino acid drugs. Since the early eighties the bodybuilders also “played” with these building blocks, trying to gain more muscle mass. With the passage of time there came and went a lot of amino acid drugs and more recently glutamine has become especially popular and not by accident. Glutamine, if I may say so is the mother of all amino acids.
Technically speaking, glutamine is not among the “essential” amino acids. It can be synthesized in the body from some other amino acids – glutamic acid, valine and isoleucine. But during disease and stress (weight lifting is also a stress), some parts of the body need so much glutamine that the body cannot cope with it. In such cases the glutamine drugs come to the aid. In fact, many European hospitals glutamine is prescribed in addition to a course of treatment for the patients suffering from stress or trauma (post-surgery, burns, various diseases etc.). The studies show that such use of as it has a strong anti-catabolic effect.
Definitely, our body uses a lot of glutamine during the day. For example, glutamine is required in large quantities to maintain the proper functioning of the immune system, kidneys, pancreas, gall bladder and liver. Glutamine also serves an important function in transporting the nitrogen, it removes ammonia from certain parts of the body (brain and lungs, in particular) and carries it to the others (kidney and intestine). In addition, glutamine is used as feedstock for a powerful natural antioxidant – glutathione (it is obtained from glutamine, cysteine and glycine). It is also believed that glutamine is important for proper digestion of muscle glycogen, although I honestly do not understand why it is so. I do not believe that this is because glutamine improves the insulin release and I do not think that it is converted to the amino acid that can bind glucose, like alanine.
In addition to all the pleasant things, glutamine is among the few amino acids, which cause the extra release of the growth hormone, in fact, two grams of glutamine taken orally, cause a fourfold elevation of the growth hormone. Ii is still uncertain whether it is good or bad, but it certainly has not hurt anyone. I could go on and on, but to bring some up, I can only say that this amino acid is needed by the body in large quantities for a number of important functions, including the proper muscle metabolism.
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