Re: l-glutamine (was immune system boosters etc)

[Guest guest]

I used to give my son l-glutamine because it was thought to help with

his gut BUT I was advised fairly recently to drop the l-glutamine

sharpish by my son's doctor (Dr Usman) and to avoid it completely.

This advice was based on thinking from Amy Yasko.

> We've tried adding l-glutamine but that

> appears to be giving us no end of issues - agressive behavious,

> wilfulness way above the normal etc.

[Guest guest]

I'm not yet read why Dr. Yasko is advising against it, but I do know

that many of our kids (many people in general) have problems with

what we know best as MSG.

My son began having seizures mpot too long ago. It was terrible and

I chose to make many changes at once in order to try to stop them.

One of the changes I made was stopping his broad spectrum amino acid

supplement and removing protein powder from his diet. This was done

with the idea that the glutamic acid and aspartic acid (which can be

converted to glutamic acid in just one step) can cause all sorts of

problems for some people when they become natural free glutamatic

acid in our bodies. Natural free glutamic acid that our body makes

or takes from whole protein foods is good for us, but too much (like

from MSG or hydrolysed protein, etc) can have serious health

implications. It is in fact a nonessential amino acid as our body

can create it, which also makes me wonder about the necessity of

supplementing it for the majority of people.

Here's a good place to learn about this sort of stuff for anyone

interested: http://www.truthinlabeling.org/

Anyway, back to my point. My son has had only two seizures in two

weeks now and they are more mild. Before, it was as many as four a

day. I'm not sure what did the trick, perhaps all the interventions

we tried, but my gut tells me that the reduction of intake of what

can become free glutamic acid in his body was an important part of

that.

Anita

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> I used to give my son l-glutamine because it was thought to help

with

> his gut BUT I was advised fairly recently to drop the l-glutamine

> sharpish by my son's doctor (Dr Usman) and to avoid it

completely.

> This advice was based on thinking from Amy Yasko.

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