An overview of glutamine:
In the bodybuilding world, glutamine is known as one of the best supplements on the market. Glutamine is a "non essential" amino acid. Non essential does not mean that it is not essential, it means the human body produces it naturally. Sixty percent of our glutamine is found in the skeletal muscle, with the remainder residing in the lungs, liver, and stomach. Glutamine has a unique molecule structure with 2 nitrogen side chains. This makes glutamine the primary transporter of nitrogen in the muscle cells.
In the past couple years, glutamine has gained importance through studies revealing its unique contribution to protein synthesis (muscle growth), anti-catabolic breakdown functions (prevents muscle tissue breaking down) and growth hormone elevating effects. Due to these effects, glutamine plays an important part in your body by aiding recovery of muscle cells. Under normal circumstances the human body is more than capable of producing enough glutamine necessary. But in some cases more glutamine is required than the human body is able to produce, this is called glutamine depletion. Glutamine depletion can be caused by illness like the common cold, extensive burns, surgery etc. The other main cause of glutamine depletion is intense physical exercise.
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