An amino acid called glycine has been the prime candidate for some time.

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Stay away from bile nutrients ie. taurine and glycine, bitters, proteases and probiotices unless your T3 is near or above high levels.

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Drinking tea caused levels of both glycine, which can ease muscle spasms, and the anti-inflammatory hippurate in the urine to go up.

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Crassicorophium goo, by contrast, is dominated by lysine, glycine and aspartic acid.

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Many plants produce estrogen-like substances that do the same thing as BPA, only the amount ingested is orders of magnitude greater than BPA. One of those many plants is the soybean, Glycine max.

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After the volunteers stopped drinking the tea at the end of the two weeks, levels of glycine and hippurate stayed elevated for up to a further two weeks, which suggests the effects may be long-lasting.

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After experimenting with more than a dozen different formulations, drying them with custom-made machinery and heating them in ovens to test shelf life, Nektar hit upon a successful recipe that mixes insulin with glycine (an amino acid), citrate (the salt of an organic acid found in humans) and mannitol (a sugar used in intravenous products).

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