Vitamin
PURE Glycine Powder
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Description
What is Glycine?
How about a functional amino acid that you can mix into your tea or coffee as a sugar substitute to sweeten your drinks? Glycine powder is ideal for this purpose. Glycine is not only the smallest (and finest ;-) amino acid, it also tastes pleasantly sweet. This makes it exceptionally easy to take, unlike almost any other amino acid.
Glycine is primarily needed in the body to form collagen or collagenous proteins. It is the most abundant protein in the body, the fundamental substance of connective tissue and thus an important component of bones, teeth, skin, joints, cartilage, tendons and ligaments. Glycine is incorporated so frequently because it – as the smallest amino acid – enables the typical twists of collagen strands. Without glycine this would not be possible.
In recent years, many further effects of glycine have been described. For example, glycine functions in the nervous system as an inhibitory neurotransmitter by binding to the glycine receptor of the same name. Glycine also appears to have a positive influence on muscle anabolism, it is the starting material for the formation of important iron-containing proteins (e.g. haemoglobin) and it is a component of glutathione (antioxidant). Furthermore, results from a groundbreaking experiment suggest that glycine could play a crucial role in ageing:
The addition of glycine for 10 days to the culture medium of the 97-year-old fibroblast cell line led to restoration of mitochondrial function. This suggests that glycine treatment can reverse age-related mitochondrial defects in older human fibroblasts.
Glycine also appears to be very important because modern diet is increasingly depleted of it. Even just a few decades ago, people consumed significantly more glycine through food gelatine. A biochemical calculation suggests that modern people with average diet are missing approximately 5 g of glycine per day.
A detailed assessment of all possible glycine sources shows, (…) that the daily dose available from synthesis of approximately 3 g/day together with the amount available from diet of 1.5–3.0 g/day in a 70 kg person can fall significantly below the amount needed for all metabolic purposes, including collagen synthesis, of approximately 10 g/day.
Glycine Powder from the PURE Range
As with all products in our PURE range, our glycine powder contains only what it says on the tin: glycine in vegan form. We avoid magnesium stearate, titanium dioxide and similar additives. With us you can truly buy the purest glycine powder.
Ingredients
Only what works. No fillers, no flow agents beyond what's truly necessary.
- Active: bioavailable form, fully dosed
- Sweeteners: stevia and erythritol, never aspartame or sucralose
- Flow agents: plant-based, only where technically needed
- Vegan capsule shell (where applicable)
Safety & quality
Every batch is tested in an accredited lab for lead, cadmium, mercury and arsenic. Microbiological controls per Ph. Eur. standards.
Selected products are certified via the Kölner Liste®. Anti-doping safety for competitive athletes.
Science
Our doses are based on published human studies, not on the German minimum recommendation.
Sources and further reading are available in the edubily® science briefing.
How to take it.
Measure your dose
Use the scoop in the pack. For most products: 1 serving per day.
Mix with water
Stir into 200–300 ml of water or a cold drink. Brief stir, done.
At the right time
Depending on the active, take it at breakfast, before training or before bed. Details in the description.
From the founders
“We've been developing supplements since 2010 — the kind we take ourselves and would recommend to our own parents. No label cosmetics. Just what works, in the dose that works.”
Founders of edubily®
