Rhonda Patrick· PhD
I wouldn’t supplement with glutamine if I had intestinal cancer or liver cancer.
We can't find evidence that holds up here. Proponents are reasoning from mechanism or analogy rather than direct human data, and the most credible skeptics raise objections we can't dismiss.
I wouldn’t supplement with glutamine if I had intestinal cancer or liver cancer.
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For GI cancers and liver cancer, I would say do not supplement glutamine, and I would say under most conditions...I always say in those states, I actually tried to look up the glutamine content of food, and you might want to avoid it or minimize glutamine, high glutamine-containing foods.