Additionally, it may be used in the management of angina, heart failure, and to improve exercise tolerance by enhancing energy production and reducing muscle fatigue
For diabetic patients Patients with diabetes are often encouraged to lose weight
They had managed to isolate a partial sequence of the natural occurring GLP-1 peptide (proglucagon 78-107) from the inner lining of a pig's small intestine (Holst, rskov, Schwartz
It is one of the amino acids (20 amino acids) that, together with the others, form the proteins, that is to say that it can be synthesized in the organism from other amino acids such as valine, isoleucine or glutamic acid, however it is considered a "conditioned essential amino acid" or semi-essential since in conditions of physical or psychological stress, trauma, infection, intense training, etc., its consumption is superior to its synthesis: the body demands so much glutamine that it is not able to synthesize it in sufficient quantity