Glutamine reduces weight gain from high fat diet

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GLUTAMINE AND ALANINE, two amino acids, caused mice to lose 10% of their body weight even though they were fed a high (45%) fat diet.

Glutamine had the additional benefit of reducing blood sugar levels by 50% and insulin levels by 30%. In a second experiment glutamine was shown to stop the weight gain of mice fed a high fat diet. For two months the glutamine-supplemented mice had no change in weight while the unsupplemented group gained 15%.

REFERENCE

Opara EC, Petro A, Tevrizian A, Feinglos MN, Surwit RS. L-glutamine supplementation of a high fat diet reduces body weight and attenuates hyperglycemia and hyperinsulinemia in C57BL/6J mice. Journal of Nutrition, 1996 Jan, 126(1):273-9.

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