Is taking Glucosamine and Glutamine helpful or redundant?

Question

I’ve read that Glucosamine is made from Glutamine, but if you’re trying to retain Glutamine would taking Glucosamine help with that since you would not have to use Glutamine to make it? I have a protein powder that has L-Glutamine and a supplement that has Glucosamine, I just wanted to make sure that more is better and it’s not somehow redundant.

Thanks!

Answer 1

I'm not sure where you read that, but it's way off base. Glucosamine is typically from Shellfish and is good for joints while Glutamine is an Amino Acid that is good for muscles and brain health.

Of course, I've had people tell me that they thought Glucosamine came from Glucose, so they thought it would be sweet. The names are similar, but they are completely unrelated and all give different benefits.

No, they are not redundant.

Answer 2

I would like to answer you to preface how the supplements work, so that it will become very simple in your mind after wards.

L-glutamine is a sugar... A carbohydrate.  Not to be confused with table sugar.  Human beings and all animals depend upon specific sugars(carbohydrates) for  proper cellular communication.

These specific sugars( carbohydrates) are what your cell enzymes use as zip codes to know where cell parts and cells belong as well as recognizing friend or foe.  

Enzymes are made out of a series of protein molecules.  Glutamine is a known dietary enzyme or protein.  It is also a substrate used for DNA synthesis.

Glutamine comes from eggs, beets, spinach,etc... and activates as a benefit for the human body in healing and injury and regeneration of bones and tissues.

Therefore, the body not only uses enzymes for cellular signals that have to do with replacing new tissues and destroying old scarring and aging tissues... The body also uses specific sugars/carbohydrates for cellular communication that is far more complicated than what enzymes can do.

These specific sugars sit on top of the protein stems on cells for cellular communication.  The protein stems are enzymes.  The antennae or braille that the cells use are the sugars on top of them.

Neither one will cancel each other out as they are food molecules that should be a part of our naturally occuring diet.  Primitive man had plenty of these to function optimally, but modern man does not... So we have to supplement.

You take more of the product or both, then your body will just flush out what it cannot use and innately know what it can use.  

So, if you can eat an apple and an orange, you can eat these supplements, together.  Both are intrinsically different, but both have a symbiotic function.  Symbiotic means they have a working relationship.

L-glutamine sources vary in the product.  If you are allergic to shell fish, make sure you get L-glutamine from plant sources.  It comes from a microscopic crustacean species to wheat or corn.

Not all products have purity.  So, you have to spend more to get the pure and effective product.  It's about quality, not quantity.  

So, to be sure, you get a product with GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices) which is FDA standards, however...

GMP's do ignore synergistic affects of products, but they don't ignore product claims.  This means, that if a product is of GMP standards, you don't need to make things up and you are getting a high quality food supplement.

Synergistic, meaning... Does the product need a specific nutritional catalyst in order for the enzyme or carbohydrate or vitamin to work?  Does one nutrient cancel another one out? So, your question is a valid one and a good one.  Hope I helped in your understanding of how these food molecules help in cell structure and function.

Answer 3

They are different: l-glutamine is an amino acid and glucosamine is an amino sugar. You'll be fine taking them both at the same time. However, there have been studies linking increased l-glutamine with increased LDL cholesterol so you may want to research it more.

Answer 4

my dog takes it