Glutamine The most abundant amino acid in your body, glutamine is stored mostly in your muscles, although rather significant amounts are found in your brain, lungs, blood, and liver. This important amino acid serves as a building block for proteins, nucleotides (structural units of RNA and DNA), and other
Status is important to some people, and they show it by the cars the drive, the clothes they wear, and the houses they live in. That’s fine, but there’s one type of status that should be important to everyone, and that’s your nutrient status. Are you getting enough of key nutrients for maximum performance and health? Let’s begin to find out. Last month, I looked into how exercise depletes the body of certain B vitamins; this month, I will address the need for additional minerals, namely magnesium, zinc, and chromium and how they figure into an active lifestyle.(1) Magnesium Nutritionists have long known that the typical American diet is low in magnesium, a mineral which is involved in many metabolic functions. Increasingly, magnesium is becoming known as the “heart mineral” because of its protective effect on the heart.
