Glutamine Powder

L-Glutamine is a “conditionally” essential amino acid. The average healthy person can usually make enough glutamine to meet biological needs.  A shortage of glutamine may arise when there is disease, injury or other physiological abnormality that increases the body’s requirement for glutamine.  Glutamine is essential for the metabolism, structure, and function of the gastrointestinal tract and its associated immune component. Glutamine serves as a major source of fuel for the cells that line the intestinal tract, helping to maintain their normal, healthy function.  Immune cells require glutamine to help function properly.  During times of physical stress and disease i.e. lifting weights, cancer, severe burns, an individual’s requirement for glutamine increases dramatically.