L-glutamine at 17?

General_Llama · 10-04-2007, 05:42 PM

I was wondering, is it safe to take L-glutamine at age 17? I was thinking of trying this, http://www.bodybuilding.com/store/4ever/lglut.html .

Bones98 · 10-04-2007, 05:53 PM

yep, it is safe. Glutamine is an amino acid, which is beneficial to your body. But honestly dude, glutamine doesn't significantly help with the results of lifting.

I would recommend getting a jug of quality creatine.

KellerLB · 10-04-2007, 05:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Bones98

yep, it is safe. Glutamine is an amino acid, which is beneficial to your body. But honestly dude, glutamine doesn't significantly help with the results of lifting.

I would recommend getting a jug of quality creatine.

Jug usually indicates liquid if in which case you are recommending creatine serum (If your not just say i mean tub/container w/e) that **** dont work at all... Glutamine does help with recovery and immune system and claims to help prevent muscle loss...

I take it and feel fine... And I used it for 3 months~ and about 2 weeks after i stopped using it i got a minor cold.... most likely a coincedence but hey

The Brotherhood · 10-04-2007, 06:01 PM

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Originally Posted by KellerLB

Jug usually indicates liquid if in which case you are recommending creatine serum (If your not just say i mean tub/container w/e) that **** dont work at all... Glutamine does help with recovery and immune system and claims to help prevent muscle loss...

I take it and feel fine... And I used it for 3 months~ and about 2 weeks after i stopped using it i got a minor cold.... most likely a coincedence but hey

No, it does not. No research to backup this statement, and a good amount to refute it.

As science stands right now, Glutamine is worthless to bodybuilding/strength training.

KellerLB · 10-04-2007, 06:04 PM

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Originally Posted by The Brotherhood

No, it does not. No research to backup this statement, and a good amount to refute it.

As science stands right now, Glutamine is worthless to bodybuilding/strength training.

you can believe that there is glutamine debunked thread in here... but w/e its up to u...

The Brotherhood · 10-04-2007, 06:12 PM

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you can believe that there is glutamine debunked thread in here... but w/e its up to u...

No. It is up to science. I know nothing of any thread, but I do know that all and every piece of peer reviewed data that is publicly available refutes the usefulness of glutamine in strength and physique athletes.

Replica · 10-04-2007, 06:21 PM

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Originally Posted by The Brotherhood

No, it does not. No research to backup this statement, and a good amount to refute it.

As science stands right now, Glutamine is worthless to bodybuilding/strength training.

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Originally Posted by The Brotherhood

No. It is up to science. I know nothing of any thread, but I do know that all and every piece of peer reviewed data that is publicly available refutes the usefulness of glutamine in strength and physique athletes.

Agreed. Glutamine has been shown to be effective when treating burn victims. It's just another supp on the market to make money....almost as big as a scam as NO.

Pro-Choice · 10-04-2007, 06:53 PM

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Originally Posted by General_Llama

I was wondering, is it safe to take L-glutamine at age 17? I was thinking of trying this, http://www.bodybuilding.com/store/4ever/lglut.html .

Glutamine is only safe to be using at an age where you understand what it is, what it does, and why you should or shouldn't be taking it. It is of course safe to supplement with in your diet at any age but seeing as that you don't know anything about it, you should not be wasting your money. Once you learn more about it and about biological systems in general you will understand why glutamine supplementation for athletes really doesn't make sense and why there numerous studies that show considerable evidence that it is useless as an athletic supplement.

The Brotherhood · 10-04-2007, 06:53 PM

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Agreed. Glutamine has been shown to be effective when treating burn victims. It's just another supp on the market to make money....almost as big as a scam as NO.

Believe it or not NO is actually more beneficial to a bodybuilder than glutamine. Both wastes of money unless you are loaded or sponsored, but still better than glutamine.

Vipersg123 · 10-04-2007, 07:10 PM

Yep brother's got it right... all scientific evidence shows that supplementing with glutamine while doing resistance training has no benefits of gaining extra muscle, strength or preventing muscle loss in a caloric deficit... waste of money.

uttaresh · 10-04-2007, 07:13 PM

I take glutamine because it helps my immunity ... don't know if it benefits recovery though.

Replica · 10-04-2007, 07:23 PM

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Originally Posted by The Brotherhood

Believe it or not NO is actually more beneficial to a bodybuilder than glutamine. Both wastes of money unless you are loaded or sponsored, but still better than glutamine.

I wouldnt exactly know if one is more beneficial, but I wouldn't be surprised. Not like it matters to me much, only thing I take is protein powder, multi, and fix oil...of course food too :-p

seanbolourchi · 10-04-2007, 07:51 PM

Its true that glutamine doesn't help much in anaerobic bodybuilding and lifting.

But my former swim team, that swims 2x a day, 2 hours a session, and 6 days a week, practically forces kids to take it

_Bladen_ · 10-04-2007, 08:01 PM

Its fine, a waste of money, but fine.

The Brotherhood · 10-04-2007, 09:01 PM

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Originally Posted by _Bladen_

Its fine, a waste of money, but fine.

Well...everything is a waste of money after food and...you know

_Bladen_ · 10-04-2007, 09:03 PM

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Originally Posted by The Brotherhood

Well...everything is a waste of money after food and...you know

Not test

mmmm... test

The Brotherhood · 10-04-2007, 09:05 PM

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Originally Posted by _Bladen_

Not test

mmmm... test

!

I was talking about dat-der creatine!

wirelessg · 10-04-2007, 09:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Vipersg123

Yep brother's got it right... all scientific evidence shows that supplementing with glutamine while doing resistance training has no benefits of gaining extra muscle, strength or preventing muscle loss in a caloric deficit... waste of money.

yea but it still benefits ppl, like i said before it helped stopped my forearm pain and traps, so it benefits ppl that overstressed muscle tissues i guess, buti still take it, taking low dosages of glutamine u will not see any effect, u have to take high doses of it

Vipersg123 · 10-04-2007, 09:17 PM

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yea but it still benefits ppl, like i said before it helped stopped my forearm pain and traps, so it benefits ppl that overstressed muscle tissues i guess, buti still take it, taking low dosages of glutamine u will not see any effect, u have to take high doses of it

again to explain to you, saying because you took glutamine and your forearm pain went away probly from over stressed tendons not muscle tissue, does not say glutamine works... thats like saying I started taking vitamin C and I gained 10 pounds in a month so it must have been the vitamin C... thats not how it works man.

wirelessg · 10-04-2007, 09:22 PM

ok then... so basically DONT BUY glutamine powder sinceu already got it with ur whey powder, only get it if u think its useful to u, im going to just finish up my glutamine powder from my container

Bones98 · 10-05-2007, 08:54 AM

Hey Keller. If you love Glutamine so much ill sell you my can of Twinlab Glutamine, that **** sucks.

Sgt_Bob05 · 10-05-2007, 10:17 AM

Glutamine definitle helps with recovery. Just go to www.bodybuilding.com and look at all the glutamine articles under nutrition and supplements. Many of the articles have links to scientific studies.

kvkx111 · 10-05-2007, 10:20 AM

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Originally Posted by The Brotherhood

No, it does not. No research to backup this statement, and a good amount to refute it.

As science stands right now, Glutamine is worthless to bodybuilding/strength training.

I agree, it's next to worthless for biulding muscle/strengh.

But if you have money to waste it might have a very slight positive inpact on your health.

iam fuzz · 10-05-2007, 10:33 AM

Seems to me that L-Glutamine is definitely on its way to be the next useless FAD product.

-fuzz

General_Llama · 10-05-2007, 01:04 PM

I was thinking of taking it to help with recovery, but I guess creatine does the same thing so I'll go get some of that. Thanks a bunch for all the help!

The Brotherhood · 10-05-2007, 01:13 PM

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Originally Posted by General_Llama

I was thinking of taking it to help with recovery, but I guess creatine does the same thing so I'll go get some of that. Thanks a bunch for all the help!

No, it does not. Creatine has nothing to do with recovery. Nothing has anything to do with muscular recovery apart from protein synthesis, which can be optimized by a high protein intake at regular intervals and possibly by supplementing with BCAAs.

KellerLB · 10-05-2007, 01:24 PM

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Hey Keller. If you love Glutamine so much ill sell you my can of Twinlab Glutamine, that **** sucks.

lol ok ship it from Cali to Canada... I dont really like it... I just found that it helped with recovery pains and had a possibly coincedental immune system effect... I said nothing about strength or muscle building... I said "It claims to prevent muscle wasting"

Im finishing my tub of it and then im done with it just Creatine and Whey

I got a good amount of money so I figured Id try NO and Glutamine and the only supp i really find effective is Creatine and Whey...

MSmith19 · 10-05-2007, 01:34 PM

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Originally Posted by The Brotherhood

No, it does not. No research to backup this statement, and a good amount to refute it.

As science stands right now, Glutamine is worthless to bodybuilding/strength training.

Wow, he clearly stated that there is little to no benefits regarding bodybuilding. It is a well-documented fact that glutamine enhances immune system and decreases recovery time.

Bubbak · 10-05-2007, 01:37 PM

Screw Glutatmine, go for dat dere Cell Tech!

NeXMuScLe · 10-05-2007, 01:40 PM

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Wow, he clearly stated that there is little to no benefits regarding bodybuilding. It is a well-documented fact that glutamine enhances immune system and decreases recovery time.

was under the impression glutamine did
just this, and didnt xtend win new product
of the year? quite coincidental. i dont use
it but it seems to be highily regarded by
alot of people on here.