Glycine: The Amino Acid Largely Missing from Our Diet that Has Incredible Health Benefits

Slows aging, protects from viral infection, improves gut health and sleep, speeds wound healing, reduces inflammation, clears fatty liver, and so much more. Glycine is one might molecule!

Here’s a riddle: what is slightly sweet, can be used as a sugar substitute, doesn’t spike blood glucose, even helps with blood glucose regulation, and has so many health benefits I just had to stop researching because this article was growing unwieldy?

Every now and then in life, you come across something that is purely a win-win on all fronts. Glycine is like a miracle substance. Check out this graphic from the study Glycine: The Smallest Anti-Inflammatory Micronutrient

In this article, we examine evidence that supplementing with the inexpensive, slightly sweet amino acid glycine:

• Makes you less susceptible to viruses

• Slows aging

• Reduces inflammation

• Improves gut health

• Reduces the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes and helps alleviate symptoms

• Improves sleep

• Helps prevent and reverse osteoporosis and osteoarthritis

• Helps alleviate fatty liver disease

• Prevents colitis (bowel inflammation)

• Reduces sepsis mortality

• Increases glutathione, your body’s master antioxidant

• Suppresses tumor growth

• Reduces depression

• Greatly speeds wound healing

This may sound too good to be true but I carefully documented each claim with evidence.

I know it can be tiring to hear that your non-stick pans, every kind of packaged food, and your tap water are all out to get you. So it’s about time for some good news for a change!

If there’s one thing I’m excited to discover, it’s that there’s something sweet that’s relatively inexpensive and has so many incredible health benefits that it’s hard to believe them all. Imagine if there were a drug that did a tenth of what glycine does. Also, it has few side effects.

Why Glycine Supplementation Is Imperative for Moderns