Benefits
of Glutimmune: Glutamine has been shown to assist in improving: immune
system function, brain function, blood sugar levels,
increasing muscle mass, and healing and maintaining
the digestive tract. It decreases intestinal permeability
by nutritionally supporting and strengthening the mucosa.
Why Use GlutImmune? The
majority of commercially available Glutamine sources
offer only L-Glutamine, a synthetic, free amino acid.
L-Glutamine has been shown to be unstable in the presence
of heat, water, acid or base solutions, making L-Glutamine
impractical to utilize in all but powdered food preparations.
Covalent Bonded Glutamine, on the other hand, has been
shown to withstand processing temperatures of 180 degrees
Fahrenheit for one hour or 250 degrees Fahrenheit for
15 minutes and pH variances in the range of 3.5 to 9.0.
In addition, Covalent Bonded Glutamine is stable in
aqueous solutions for prolonged periods of time. Covalent
Bonded Glutamine can be used in all liquid and semi-solid
food preparations. In addition, due to the instability
of L-Glutamine in water and pH extremes, it is safe
to assume that much of L-Glutamine decomposes once it
passes into the human gastrointestinal tract. Gastric
acid is equivalent to 0.1
Normal
Hydrochloric Acid (pH less than 2)
and at 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit and a pH below 2, L-Glutamine
decomposes very quickly. In addition, since L-Glutamine
is a free amino acid, what percentage that does survive
the pH extremes of the stomach is absorbed through the
intestinal wall by a different mechanism than covalent
bound amino acids...this free amino acid absorption
mechanism is competitive... meaning that in an excess
of free amino acids, only a certain percentage of any
particular free amino acid will be absorbed. Covalent
Bonded Glutamine, on the other hand demonstrates improved
retention in intestinal cells and the oligopeptides containing Glutamine will be absorbed through the intestinal
wall by a less "competitive" method. Studies
by P.D. Fairclough et al.,
G.K. Grimble et al, and D.B.A.
Silk et al, have shown that uptake of amino acids is
faster and more "even" from oligopeptide chains than from the equivalent free amino acid
mixtures in the Human intestine. In other words, Covalent
Bonded Glutamine will be absorbed faster and probably
more efficiently than L-Glutamine in the Human digestive
system.
Recent publications have stated that Covalent bonded glutamine
delivers up to 10 times more glutamine to the blood
stream than L-glutamine.
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