Dr. Rhonda Patrick
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So if my son all of a sudden starts sneezing, I'm like, okay.
You're just scooping.
So glutamine is used by activated T cells, and it just dawned on me.
I'd done all this research.
I'm like, you can take glucose out of a cell culture as long as there's glutamine there.
Those...
Cells are fine.
They are fine because they consume glutamine as an energy source.
It's used as alpha-ketoglutarate.
So basically it gets converted into that.
But I started taking it and this is total anecdata, but
You know, for a long period of time, I never got sick.
Then I became a mom.
I still didn't get sick until my son started school.
And then it was, like, insane how often I was getting sick.
I was, like, I was wondering if I had cancer.
I'm, like, what is wrong with me?
And then I started to glutamine, and I don't ever get sick anymore.
Really?
I'm serious.