May Protect Against Muscle Loss

Glycine may help to prevent muscle wasting, which happens with age, malnutrition, and when your body is under stress, such as with cancer or severe burns. Muscular wasting causes a damaging loss of muscle mass and strength, lowering functional status and complicating other potentially existing disorders. Because it substantially inhibits muscle breakdown and increases muscle growth, the amino acid leucine has been explored as a therapy for muscle wasting. However, various physiological changes that occur during muscle atrophy reduce the efficiency of leucine in inducing muscle development.

Interestingly, research has revealed that glycine may increase muscle development in animals with muscle wasting disorders such as cancer, although leucine cannot. As a result, glycine has the potential to improve health by preserving muscles from wasting throughout various wasting diseases.