Comments on: 17 Benefits of Glycine Supplements + Dietary Sources

By: Sharon allen

Sharon allen — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 13:33:40 +0000

Really good information about glycine. It is actually an amino acid that really helps to calm our brain and relaxed our muscles.

By: Nancy Saenz

Nancy Saenz — Thu, 20 Aug 2020 04:47:39 +0000

Concerns about interactions with other meds like
diabetes oral hypoglycemics or say antidepressant or supplements for cholesterol or
ACE inhibitors.

By: MKW

MKW — Wed, 11 Mar 2020 13:58:53 +0000

Glycine is sedating for some people, and activating for others. If I take glycine at night I’m awake nearly all night, and get zero deep sleep according to my Oura sleep tracking ring. But if I take glycine first thing in the morning, I fall asleep easily at night, get back to sleep faster after waking during the night, and get an hour or more of deep sleep. Everyone is different.

By: Ana Aleksic, MSc (Pharmacy)

Ana Aleksic, MSc (Pharmacy) — Thu, 29 Aug 2019 11:23:21 +0000

In reply to keith. Hi Keith, thanks for pointing this out. We've revised the text to improve clarity. Glycine reduced the time it takes to fall asleep while increasing slow-wave sleep.

By: keith

keith — Thu, 25 Jul 2019 14:12:24 +0000

What does this mean, “Taking glycine before sleep improves sleep quality and sleep efficacy by *increasing* the time to fall asleep, and slow wave deep sleep”? If you increase the time to fall asleep doesn’t that make it take longer to fall asleep? Sounds counter productive.

By: Jeffrey Florentino

Jeffrey Florentino — Tue, 30 Apr 2019 22:42:29 +0000

In reply to Adrian.

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By: Adrian

Adrian — Tue, 23 Apr 2019 22:56:50 +0000

Given how gelatin in prepared, in your opinion, could glycine be used as a sweetener in hot beverages and still retain its activity?

By: Sally

Sally — Sat, 26 May 2018 20:33:09 +0000

I would like to take glycine for all its benefits, but whenever I take it, I am awaken at night with a racing heart. Why is this happening?

By: Amy

Amy — Sun, 06 May 2018 11:30:19 +0000

Could Glycine provoke Anxiety attacks? I’ve noticed that whenever I take Glycine, I suffer acute anxiety attacks. I suspect the reason may be for the possible increase in Dopamine, but I could be wrong. What do you think?

By: ted bennet

ted bennet — Wed, 18 Apr 2018 01:46:27 +0000

Doris
I urge you to dive in deep with Dr Ray Peat… The Ray Peat forum and assorted other Ray Peat facebook groups. Peat is a researcher and PhD biologist. This will take some time…but will be well worth it. Many of “our” maladies, dysfunctions, etc come down to straight miss-use of our own biology knowingly or by accident, according to Dr Peat. I’m paraphrasing here. Good Luck.

By: SandraB

SandraB — Sun, 08 Apr 2018 20:30:56 +0000

Doris,

Research the following key words on youtube, it will point you in the right direction:

Abram Hoffman , Vitamins, Schizophrenia ,Orthomolecuar Medicine
Julia Ross, Mood Cures, Amino Acids
John GRay, Autism

PS
Each Author have published books so head out to your local public library and check them out.

Good Luck!

By: Doris C. Meshack

Doris C. Meshack — Wed, 04 Apr 2018 03:40:38 +0000

i am trying to find supplements to help my 35 year old son who has schizophrenia (autism). He has been on fluphenazine, risperdone, Benztropine and sertraline. I want to start using vitamins for him.

By: Heather Rae, INHC

Heather Rae, INHC — Thu, 01 Mar 2018 13:03:58 +0000

I forgot to mention, we may all be low in glycine due to use of RoundUp/glyphosate in the industrial food system and in our water.
Stefanie Seneff at MIT is looking at glycine in collagen and glutathione, finding that glyphosate is an analog of glycine.
Scary stuff, really. (I tested off the charts for glyphosate and organophosphates after working in a commercial nursery for a year)

By: Heather Rae, INHC

Heather Rae, INHC — Thu, 01 Mar 2018 12:54:51 +0000

I am taking glycine based on some clues about my own body, rather than guessing at how supplementation works in my unique body and mind.
After digging into the results of my organic acid test AND after immersing into classes on functional medicine and MethylGenetic Nutrition for several years AND after running my 23andME through an extensive de-coder … AND after compiling all that data into software, I have some information about *me* which is essentially irrelevant to anybody else, albeit interesting (maybe), upon which to do experimentation.
My husband gets the runs from the amount of glycine that we’ve been taking and, so, he’s cutting it down or out. I barely notice the same dose at all, and am upping it, as well as taking a glutamate scavenger and addressing a glutathione deficiency (and other nutritional and toxin/heavy metal issues with an awareness of my particular genetic variants, a study in its infancy).
This plan of action is bio-individual, evidenced by my unique data set.
No doctor could get me here, so I’ve done it myself, a la Joe!

By: Helen

Helen — Mon, 12 Feb 2018 17:54:37 +0000

In reply to John Firth.

The link still works https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22529837
Or you can try the full article https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3328957/

By: John Firth

John Firth — Mon, 12 Feb 2018 15:51:47 +0000

Reference links are not working
Error occurred: The following PMID is not available: 22529837

By: Carolyn

Carolyn — Mon, 08 Jan 2018 01:38:21 +0000

Try taurine with glycine

By: Carlos

Carlos — Fri, 05 Jan 2018 16:21:33 +0000

The study you linked says the opposite: “There were no significant changes in the urinary excretion of oxalate, …” and “These results provide no biochemical evidence of an increased risk of renal lithiasis due to glycine irrigation during transurethral operations”. However, if taken as collagen (two of the listed products in the article) that promotes the formation of oxalates, especially if you are deficient in vitamin B6. So for Kath above I suppose the recommendation would be do take Glycine, just not with, or in the form of, Collagen

By: Harold Powell

Harold Powell — Thu, 04 Jan 2018 01:30:24 +0000

I have looked into dmg and glycine concerning diabetes. One aslect is that dmg is changed in most people directly to glycine. Being that beef gelatin is high in glycine and other similar acting amines, to me, since I have had great benefit in using it, I recommend beef gelatin as very economical and inclusive( budget management “

By: Leon

Leon — Sun, 19 Nov 2017 16:34:48 +0000

Hi, Joe, I am relatively new to this site, and I think your work is great! I follow a whole-food plant-based diet (vegan), but I still like your page on it as I think it´s good of you to be sceptic of every diet, including veganism.
Now, on glycine; I notice you claim it has anti-fertility effects. I can not find any source on this page on this topic. And instead, I actually found three sources on the internet conlucing glycine actually has pro-fertility effects:
– https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10232663
– https://books.google.nl/books?id=mas4AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA357&lpg=PA357&dq=fertility+glycine&source=bl&ots=4WMxyQaaa-&sig=uCJQaQQ8nOqe6pfO81zGMVIIqfI&hl=nl&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiGh-6XhsvXAhXLPxoKHeRNBbM4ChDoAQglMAA#v=onepage&q=glycine&f=false page 357-363
– https://www.earthclinic.com/cures/infertility.html

I look forward to your response!

By: Evguenia Alechine

Evguenia Alechine — Tue, 24 Oct 2017 13:18:41 +0000

In reply to Kath.

Hi Kath, glycine produces oxalate in the body. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8140673

By: Kath

Kath — Mon, 23 Oct 2017 23:17:45 +0000

Collagen is high in oxalate which is an issue for me. Do you if there are oxalates in Glycine?

By: Justin

Justin — Mon, 23 Oct 2017 17:46:13 +0000

Potassium has consistently tested normal. Does glycine deplete potassium?

By: Crazy Justin

Crazy Justin — Mon, 23 Oct 2017 17:44:34 +0000

I suffer from sensitivity to supplements due to poor glycine conjugation. Glycine supplementation worked like magic for a couple weeks then in the ULTIMATE IN CRUELTY, I became intolerant to glycine. It caused low energy, low HR and very sore muscles. Any reasons for this? Could extra methyl folate help? Thanks.