I have been looking at Glycine as a less expensive way to blunt cortisol (apparently it’s a good sleep aid too). A supplement description of the NOW brand states: “Glycine also supplies creatine, which is used to construct DNA and RNA.”
Does this mean that creatine is contained in Glycine or does it mean that Glycine aids in the delivery of creatine already present from diet and/or supplementation? Hope this isn’t a dumb question.
Thank you for any help.
Creatine can be made in the body from glycine, methionine, arginine and I think there’s another. Highly doubt using glycine to get your creatine would be more cost efficient than using plain creatine.
Beta alanine and carnosine (sp?) production is one of the few exceptions, though.
[quote]MAF14 wrote:
Creatine can be made in the body from glycine, methionine, arginine and I think there’s another. Highly doubt using glycine to get your creatine would be more cost efficient than using plain creatine.
Beta alanine and carnosine (sp?) production is one of the few exceptions, though.[/quote]
I ask because I am actually interested in avoiding creatine use at certain times. One of CT’s PWO recommendations was 20g of Glycine. I was wondering if this amount would ‘provide’ an amount of creatine (through conversion) similar to normal creatine supplementation?
Why not just take both? What’s the point of not taking creatine post?
Just wanted to quickly add: I never found glycine that effective for lowering post-workout cortisol. That’s not to say it’s useless, it’s great for liver health, but in terms of lowering cortisol, in my opinion there’s not much out there better than phosphatidylserine. A dose of 300mg-800mg post workout is unbelievable in its effect of lowering cortisol.
I’m going to have to agree with hungryone on this one. I’ve tried supplementation of glycine post-meal (1tsp) as well as post-workout (0.01g per lb bodyweight) and found not much difference in cortisol. After having my biosig done, my umbillicus site dropped slightly, but nothing to write home about. PS seems to bring me waaaayyy down post-workout. Especially after one where I’m hopped up on the pre-workout goodies - Caffeine, Carnitine, Alanine, etc.
However, I do add glycine to my post-workout shakes (in the same dose as mentioned above) because I believe it does help with protein synthesis.
All the best!
Glycine and arginine are turned into guanidinoacetate which is methylated into creatine. The body will only make as much creatine as it feels is enough. To get higher concentrations than that, you need to supplement with creatine.
What you’re asking is the same as asking if eating 200 grams of cholesterol a day will be as effective as a testosterone cycle. It’s not.