G-TEK RENDERS ALL FREE FORM L- GLUTAMINE OBSOLETE!
With the release of G-TEK™ Peptide Transported Glutamine™ and Chewable
G-TEK™ Peptide Transported Glutamine™ ThermoLife International sets
the new standard in glutamine supplementation. Recent clinical studies have
proven that the technologically advanced Peptide Transported Glutamine in G-TEK
and Chewable G-TEK is more bio available, more stable and more effective at
raising glutamine levels than any free form glutamine product on the market.
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Clinical science and practical experience have proven that free form L-glutamine
is inherently unstable, it quickly degrades in solution and does not reach the
blood in concentration levels needed to replenish healthy levels of glutamine.
In addition, a little know fact, is that almost all of the research done on
free from glutamine supplementation was done in hospitals on subjects receiving
the glutamine intravenously. Just because you buy and take something called
glutamine, does not mean you are going to benefit from all the metabolic functions
that glutamine performs.
On the contrary, the Peptide Transported Glutamine in G-TEK and Chewable G-TEK
has been clinically proven to be highly stable in the body, very soluble in
solution, readily absorbed by the digestive tract, and efficiently retained
in the blood and body tissues where it enters muscle cells fast and performs
the essential metabolic functions of glutamine including; increasing muscle
mass, preventing catabolic muscle loss, raising growth hormone levels, improving
immune functions, stabilizing blood sugar and preventing over training syndrome,
just to name a few.
The benefits of Glutamine supplementation cannot be fully experienced from
free form L-glutamine. The only practical way to effectively elevate glutamine
levels is with the clinically proven Peptide Transported Glutamine in G-TEK
or Chewable G-TEK. ThermoLife International G-TEK products now render all free
form glutamine products obsolete Start taking a ThermoLife G-TEK product today
and feel the difference for yourself.
Why Glutamine?
Glutamine is a "conditionally essential" amino acid. Normally, an
"essential" amino acid is one that the body must ingest through nutrition,
because it can't manufacture that amino acid. But, under certain conditions
- of stress, disease, malnutrition, or bodily injury - a "non-essential"
amino acid, which the body manufactures, can become depleted and "conditionally
essential." Glutamine is the most important of these, for its many vital
functions in normal body function and athletic training.
Glutamine is the most abundant amino acid in the body, constituting more than
50% of the free amino acid pool in body cells. It is normally available to synthesize
proteins, the building blocks of muscle, and provide many more beneficial functions,
as we'll explain.
One of Glutamine's primary metabolic functions is that it helps to regulate
glucose metabolism. Glutamine converts to glucose without changing insulin or
glucagon levels. These are the hormones that regulate blood sugar. During carbohydrate
depletion, glutamine can increase body fat loss without loss of lean body mass.
Glutamine provides a high-energy source for maintaining muscle function, by
converting to glucose, which turns into glycogen stores in the muscles.
Glutamine is a key contributor to repair of gastrointestinal tract cells and
the immune system - where it contributes to nucleic acid synthesis, which is
essential to cell growth throughout the body. And because glutamine helps the
intestinal tract resist the passage of bacteria into the bloodstream, glutamine
supplementation helps hard-training athletes fight off infection, and helps
the person with illness or injury to recover faster.
Glutamine has been proven to release growth hormone. In one study just 2 grams
of glutamine raised growth hormone levels more than 400%, increased growth hormone
levels have a strong anabolic effect on muscle growth. Glutamine also converts
to glutathione, a powerful anti-oxidant that helps to prevent cellular breakdown.5
And glutamine crosses the blood-brain barrier, converting inside the brain to
glutamic acid, which makes GABA (gamma amino butyric acid), which boosts mental
alertness and relaxes the body. As a neurotransmitter in the brain, glutamine
is a precursor to other neurotransmitters, so glutamine levels can affect the
brain and nervous system.
For the muscles, a glutamine shortage can cause the muscles to be broken down,
releasing glutamine to the rest of the body, leading to muscle wasting. Especially
for body-builders and other athletes undergoing rigorous training workouts on
a regular basis, it is crucial to ensure that the body's stores of glutamine
are maintained at healthy levels, through supplementation before and after training.
Glutamine is critical to the intestines and the immune system as a fuel, and
is used to synthesize DNA, enzymes and proteins in all active cells in your
body - a building block for your muscles.1 Glutamine also helps maintain overall
body health by regulating the acid / alkaline balance of the blood.
So, by helping to regulate glucose metabolism, glutamine helps maintain the
level of glycogen stored in your muscles as fuel for strenuous exercise. Adequate
levels of glutamine are also critical to your brain, where glutamine is a neurotransmitter
and precursor to another key neurotransmitter, keeping your brain functioning
normally. And healthy blood levels of glutamine are an important part of anti-oxidant
defenses, and maintaining the blood's critical acid/alkali balance.
Under normal conditions, our bodies make adequate amounts of glutamine from
other amino acids. But after strenuous physical exercise, when fighting an illness,
or if the body has been damaged by injury, our bodies run low on glutamine,
and are more susceptible to infections.2 At these times of physical stress,
when our bodies cannot make enough glutamine, we need to take additional amounts
into our bodies through food or supplementation.
Athletes in training, whether aerobic or anaerobic, create this level of glutamine-depleting
stress on the body during exhaustive training. Strenuous exercise lowers the
blood concentration of glutamine. Sometimes, the body's glutamine levels do
not recover before the next training session. Studies have shown that an athlete
in the overtraining syndrome - where the athlete works harder but his or her
performance does not improve - has chronically low levels of glutamine. In this
condition, the athlete may lose muscle mass, is more prone to injury and infection,
and may suffer digestive problems and a loss of motivation for exercise.
Glutamine Supplementation
Maintaining healthy blood levels of glutamine is necessary to the athlete who
wants to optimize all critical body functions, and derive the maximum benefit
from his or her training regimen. Before, during and after training, glutamine
levels must be maintained, to provide its vital role in regulating energy, repairing
any lost muscle tissue, maintaining and building added muscle, sustaining elevated
levels of growth hormone and its powerful anabolic effect, nourishing the immune
system, keeping brain and nerve function at a high level, and maintaining the
acid/alkali blood balance.
The athlete must be sure to build up his or her blood glutamine level pre-workout,
so the entire body has enough reserve glutamine to prevent glutamine depletion
during or after a strenuous workout. Stored glutamine reserves are crucial to
being able to function at a high level during an athletic workout. In body building
and strength training, glutamine is both anabolic - muscle building and anti-catabolic
- muscle protecting.
Pre-loading of glutamine via supplementation, in preparation for a strenuous
workout, is the key to ensuring adequate reserves and preventing depletion.
Mid-workout, a healthy blood level of glutamine is critical to maximum performance,
by sustaining high-level muscular, nerve, brain, intestinal, and blood functioning.
Post-workout, supplementation is essential to restoring blood levels of glutamine
burned up by exertion. The rebuilding of energy levels and restoration of the
protein building blocks supplied by glutamine are key to preparing for, performing,
and afterward sustaining the full benefit of a strenuous workout. Glutamine
supplementation heightens your preparation, performance, and recovery from strenuous
workouts.
Peptides Bonded Glutamine
Physicians have recognized that glutamine supplementation is needed under conditions
of stress. These conditions run a parallel to the hard working athlete. In theses
conditions physicians have administered free for L- glutamine to clinical patients
intravenously.3 But, they discovered that free form, unbonded glutamine is highly
unstable in the body, breaking down so that it is not bioavailable, and does
not reach the blood concentration levels needed to replenish healthy levels
of glutamine.
Peptide-bonded amino acids, including glutamine, are clinically proven to be
highly stable in the body, very soluble in solution, readily absorbed by the
digestive tract, and efficiently retained in the blood and body tissues. Peptide-bonded
amino acids are administered to patients with burns, inflammatory disease, cancer
and AIDS, and are used in oral supplements for high-output athletes.
Peptides are amino acids linked to each other by strong, peptide bonds. Strings
of amino acids make up short, medium, or long-chain peptides, which in turn
are the main components of protein. Short-chain peptides are amino acids linked
in groups of two (dipeptides), three (tri-peptides), or more.
Di- and tri-peptides are very stable in solution, are very soluble - they dissolve
completely in solution - and are quickly and easily absorbed by the human digestive
tract.4 They are totally bioavailable, since they are retained - not excreted
- by the body and are ready for use in building and repairing muscle, supplying
energy, serving as the building blocks of DNA, protein and muscle, converting
to antioxidants, releasing anabolic growth hormones or any of their other vital
functions.6
Peptide-bonded glutamine is selectively absorbed by muscle tissue in need of
repair and replenishment.6 Being easily absorbed and totally bioavailable, peptide-bonded
glutamine enters muscle cells fast, breaks down to free glutamine, and performs
its essential metabolic functions. Peptide-bonded glutamine is thus more efficient,
more effective, and clearly superior to free-form glutamine for supplementation
of the athlete concerned about maintaining his or her pre-, mid- and post-workout
glutamine levels.
Why is the G-TEK-glutamine delivery system in tablet form?
If you have ever worked with peptide-bonded glutamine you know that powdered
peptide-bonded glutamine has a definite limitation. Taken orally, singly or
in combination, with juice, protein drinks, or water, they do not mix well and
have a strongly bitter taste, and for the most part are unpalatable. We have
tried previous powder-form supplements of peptide-bonded glutamine but it doesn't
work.
This limitation has recently been overcome by ThermoLife International's peptide
bonded glutamine delivery system in tablet form. ThermoLife International is
the first to offer such an essential glutamine supplement in a form that is
practical, convenient and affordable (as always you will see the other companies
copy us). Clinical science and practical experience has proven that that free
form L-glutamine is inherently unstable, and quickly breaks down in solution
and is basically worthless to the athlete as a powdered supplement. Research
has shown that peptide bonded glutamine is very stable and soluble, and readily
absorbed from the digestive tract. In fact some research indicates that peptide-bonded
glutamine is more than 22 times more bio-available than straight free form L-glutamine.
That clearly makes the G-TEK-Peptide Transported Glutamine products by ThermoLife
International the most bio-available and most cost effective glutamine products
on the market today. Don't even waste your time finishing your existing bottle
of free form L-glutamine. Start taking a G-TEK product today and feel the difference.
Clearly the only choice for glutamine supplementation is one of the G-TEK -
Peptide Transported Glutamine products, exclusively manufactured by ThermoLife
International. As with all our products G-TEK and Chewable G-TEK come with our
100% money back guarantee.
Supplement Facts:
Serving Size: 4 Tablets
Servings per Container: 60
Amount per serving:
Calories - 44
Total Fat - 0g
Total Carbohydrates - 6g
Dietary Fiber - 0%
Sugars - 0%
Protein - 3.75g
Peptide bonded Glutamine - 5g