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Given the importance of supplying the body with L-Glutamine, we have a few choices:
- Simple L-Glutamine powder (several problems including increasing ammonia, bad absorption, very unstable and breaks down in water in 5 minutes etc.)
- Trans-Alanyl-Glutamine (Metabolic Nutrition) and/or glutamine peptides by other companies (most problems of L-Glutamine solved)
- Ornithine Alpha-Ketoglutarate [OKG] (L-Glutamine precursor)
The textbooks all say that OKG is the ultimate way to give your body glutamine; easy absorption, stable, doesn't increase ammonia, and it even significantly increases your growth hormone. There is only one problem, OKG powder is both extremely expensive and almost impossible to find. Twinlab makes OKG powder, but it is almost impossible to find, and if you can find it, 100 grams costs something like $50. Michael Colgan in his sports nutrition books recommends 2-4 grams of OKG *PER MEAL*, with 5-6 meals per day (i.e. 10-24g per day).
Several manufacturers make OKG capsules, but these typically have very little OKG in them, so you'd have to take tons of them.
Has anyone found an online source for OKG powder?
Eric
BC, Canada
- Simple L-Glutamine powder (several problems including increasing ammonia, bad absorption, very unstable and breaks down in water in 5 minutes etc.)
- Trans-Alanyl-Glutamine (Metabolic Nutrition) and/or glutamine peptides by other companies (most problems of L-Glutamine solved)
- Ornithine Alpha-Ketoglutarate [OKG] (L-Glutamine precursor)
The textbooks all say that OKG is the ultimate way to give your body glutamine; easy absorption, stable, doesn't increase ammonia, and it even significantly increases your growth hormone. There is only one problem, OKG powder is both extremely expensive and almost impossible to find. Twinlab makes OKG powder, but it is almost impossible to find, and if you can find it, 100 grams costs something like $50. Michael Colgan in his sports nutrition books recommends 2-4 grams of OKG *PER MEAL*, with 5-6 meals per day (i.e. 10-24g per day).
Several manufacturers make OKG capsules, but these typically have very little OKG in them, so you'd have to take tons of them.
Has anyone found an online source for OKG powder?
Eric
BC, Canada
