Ray Peat On Glycine
Ray Peat has written about the wonderful anti-stress and protective abilities of Glycine. In this article we will pull together all the quotes we can find where Ray Peat is discussing this amazing substance.
Both proline and glycine (which are major amino acids in gelatin) are very protective for the liver, increasing albumin, and stopping oxidative damage.
– Ray Peat
“Glycine, like carbon dioxide, protects proteins against oxidative damage (Lezcano, et al., 2006), so including gelatin (very rich in glycine) in the diet is probably protective.”
– Ray Peat
Ray Peat’s Findings On Glycine Summarized
Ray Peat wrote that Glycine is :
- Anti-Excitatory
- Anti-Stress
- Anti-Inflammatory
- Anti-Serotonin
- Anti-Estrogenic
- Improves Learning & Memory
- Cell Protective
- Inhibits Lipolysis
- And much more….
In Conclusion
Glycine is an amino acid and is usually considered non essential due to the body being able to synthesize it from other amino acids. Needless to say, we are not the fine tuned bodies of yesteryear and do not make adequate amounts for optimal health.
We also do not eat like traditional people of the past which took full advantage of the nose to tail eating habit of making sure to injest every bit of the animal that they could. Therefor, it would be beneficial to make sure dietary sources are being supplied that have copious amounts of glycine along with supplementing it if needed.
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