Use Glutamine to Heal the Gut and Hinder Your Gut Bacteria from Eating Away Your BCAA, Arginine and Other Aminos
Image 1: Don't do this at home. A pig with cannules that have been dug into its digestive tract to study chemical enzymatic and microbial actions ( University of Illinois ) With terms like "the leaky gut syndrome" and the usual quick (and not so quick) fixes a la "solutions for a leaky gut" being all over the blogosphere, I suspect that I am not telling you anything new, when I say that there is reasonable scientific evidence that glutamine is good for your gut (nice alliteration, by the way ;-). That it is yet also "good" for the bacteria in your gut may be news to you. According to a recently published study by scientists from the Laboratory of Gastrointestinal Microbiology, at the Nanjing Agricultural University in Nanjing, China, dietary l-glutamine can exert direct regulatory effects on the amino acid utilization of your gut bacteria - specifically their uptake and use of l-arginine and related amino acids ( Dai. 2012 ). "Hey, you gut ...