Description
Camden Medicals L-Glutamine 500mg 90 Capsules
About the ingredients
L-Glutamine
L-Glutamine is a conditionally essential amino acid — the most abundant free amino acid in human plasma (~500–900 µmol/L) and skeletal muscle (~60 % of the intramuscular free-amino-acid pool). The body synthesises it from glutamate via glutamine synthetase but demand can exceed supply in severe catabolic stress (sepsis, major surgery, burns, intensive endurance training), when plasma glutamine drops measurably. It is the principal metabolic fuel for enterocytes (intestinal epithelial cells) and lymphocytes, the basis of the popular "gut-barrier" and "immune support" supplement framings. There are no UK-authorised health claims for L-glutamine. Clinical-nutrition use in critical illness exists at trial-grade doses (20–30 g/day) far above typical food- supplement labels, and the largest critical-care trial (REDOXS, Heyland NEJM 2013, PMID 23594003) showed a signal of harm at those doses in multi-organ failure. Camden's editorial position keeps the "gut barrier" and "leaky gut" framings strictly descriptive and signposts UK-recognised pathways (FODMAP, NICE CG61) for the GI presentations that drive most consumer search. Read more in the encyclopaedia