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The Satiating Secret of Arginine, Lysine and Glutamic Acid. Plus: Things You May Not Know About These Aminos

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No, no and no. No amino acids = no satiety = no weight loss. Personally, I have never been interested in products that would increase satiety. Being a born masochist, at least, when it comes to cutting body fat, I always liked being hungry... well, at least until I had to learn that there is an intricate hormonal connection between "being hungry" and the diet-induced reduction in metabolic rate, hormonal production etc. That changed my whole perspective on agents that increase satiety completely, and I started to read read papers like the one Jordi et al. are about to publish in one of the upcoming issues of the Journal of Physiology (Jordi. 2013). The satiety shoot-out According to the researchers from the University of Zurich , the top-dogs, or rather the most satiating among the so-called proteogenic amino acids, which are ... L-Leucine (Leu / L) L-Lysine (Lys / K) L-Methionine (Met / M) L-Phenylalanine (Phe / F) L-Proline (Pro / P) L...
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Amino Acids for Super Humans, Part IV - Purported Ergogenics (3/3): Glutamine, the Anabolic Immune Booster?

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Image 1: Still one of the top- sellers in almost all supplement shops - l-glutamine ; tip : buying bulk powder will save money Although glutamine is one of the non-essential amino acids , even the fact that your body continuously 'sacrifices' truly essential amino acids to synthesize glutamine in your muscle tissue, should go to tell you that, after all, glutamine, the most abundant amino acid in human muscle and plasma , cannot be so non-essential as its classification would suggest. Under normal conditions it forms 50% of the whole body amino acid pool. In cells, esp. muscles, where glutamine makes up 66% of the amino acid pool. Within the cellular space, the purported cell-volumizer can reach concentrations that are up to 33 times higher than on the outside of the cell. In times of acute stress, severe burns or surgical trauma, on the other hand, tissue glutamine levels have been observed to decline by up to -50% - ...
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