{"id":122,"date":"2009-01-10T08:43:44","date_gmt":"2009-01-10T15:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glossary.ultimatefatburner.com\/glycocyamine.php"},"modified":"2015-02-14T17:32:06","modified_gmt":"2015-02-14T22:32:06","slug":"glycocyamine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/glycocyamine\/","title":{"rendered":"Glycocyamine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An intermediate in\u00a0creatine synthesis.\u00a0\u00a0It&#8217;s included in certain\u00a0creatine transport supplements as\u00a0it represents an additional pathway for increasing creatine storage in muscle tissue.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/jpet.aspetjournals.org\/content\/266\/3\/1454.abstract\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">It\u00a0also has hypoglycemic effects<\/a>, and may be able to\u00a0enhance creatine uptake\u00a0in muscle without\u00a0a sugar-mediated insulin spike.<\/p>\n<p>Glycocyamine is\u00a0a questionable addition as it can also increase homocysteine (a risk factor for cardiovascular disease), compete with creatine transporters and cause seizures in larger amounts.\u00a0 While probably not hazardous in the amounts used in most supplements, there is no human data to justify its use.<\/p>\n<p>See Elissa&#8217;s blog post: &#8220;Ingredient Watch: Glycocyamine&#8221; for more information.\u00a0 David Tolson also has an informative summary: &#8220;Glycocyamine and Health.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An intermediate in\u00a0creatine synthesis.\u00a0\u00a0It&#8217;s included in certain\u00a0creatine transport supplements as\u00a0it represents an additional pathway for increasing creatine storage in muscle tissue.\u00a0 It\u00a0also has hypoglycemic effects, and may be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[314,316,477,520],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}