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Glycine Supplement Helps Prevent Degenerative Diseases Such As Arthrosis Or Osteoporosis
10 Aug 2007
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Glycine is a non-essential amino acid used by an organism to
synthesise proteins and is present in foods such as fish, meat or dairy
products. The study, carried out at the Cellular Metabolism Institute
in Tenerife and at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
of the University of Granada , established that the direct intake of
this substance as a food additive helps to prevent arthrosis and other
degenerative diseases, in addition to other diseases related to a
weakness in the mechanical structure of the organism, including the
difficulty of repairing physical injuries.
The work of De Paz Lugo was developed at the Cellular
Metabolism Institute (CMI) in Tenerife, where researchers studied the
effect of the glycine supplement on the diet of a group of 600
volunteers affected by different diseases related to the mechanical
structure of the organism such as arthrosis, physical injuries or
osteoporosis. The patients analysed were aged 4-85, and the average age
was 45.
In all cases, there was a notable improvement in the
symptomology. "Thefore -- according to De Paz Lugo -- we concluded that
many degenerative diseases such as arthrosis can be treated as
deficiency diseases due to the lack of glycine, since supplementing a
diet with this amino acid leads to a notable improvement in
symptomology without the need to take pain-killers."
A very common disease
Arthrosis is the most common
osteoarticulary problem in our society: more than 50% of the population
suffer from it after the age of 65, and 80% of people over 75. It
consists of a degeneration of the articulary cartilage which disappears
until it leaves the subchondral bone exposed. Arthrosis has no cure at
present and the most widely used treatments are pain-killers and NSAID
(non-steroidal antiinflammatory drugs), which only relieve pain but do
not repair the damage in the cartilage or influence the development of
the disease.
The work carried out by the scientist from the CMI shows that
collagen has a unique structure with a right-handed triple superhelix
in which the glycine represents a third of its residues. Mathematical
analysis of the metabolic route of the synthesis of the glycine,
developed by the research group to which Patricia de Paz belongs,
demonstrated that this amino acid should be considered an essential
amino acid.
The doctoral thesis carried out at the CMI and the UGR has
shown that the capacity of the metabolism to synthesise glycine is very
limited. The conclusion of this study is that glycine, administered in
daily doses of 10 grams divided into two doses of 5 grams "one in the
morning and one at night" leads to a general improvement in these
problems over a period of time which, in most cases, is between two
weeks and four months.
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Article adapted by www.Joint-Pain-Forum.com from original press release.
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Reference:
Dr. Patricia de Paz Lugo. Cellular Metabolism Institute, La Laguna (Tenerife).
Source: Dr. Patricia de Paz Lugo
Universidad de Granada
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