{"id":17,"date":"2008-11-23T15:03:51","date_gmt":"2008-11-23T22:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glossary.ultimatefatburner.com\/?p=17"},"modified":"2015-02-14T17:19:21","modified_gmt":"2015-02-14T22:19:21","slug":"arginine-alphaketoglutarate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/arginine-alphaketoglutarate\/","title":{"rendered":"Arginine Alpha-Ketoglutarate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Also known as AKG or AAKG.\u00a0 Arginine alpha-ketoglutarate is a salt composed of 2 molecules of the conditionally-essential amino acid <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/larginine\/\" target=\"_blank\">L-arginine<\/a>, plus alpha-ketoglutarate, a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Citric_acid_cycle_with_aconitate_2.svg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Krebs Cycle<\/a>\u00a0intermediate and\u00a0nitrogen transporter\u00a0(via conversion to L-glutamate).\u00a0 AKG is frequently used in nitric oxide (NO) boosting bodybuilding supplements to increase muscle pump during workouts.\u00a0 See Paul&#8217;s review, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/bodybuilding\/nitric-oxide-intro.html\" target=\"_blank\">An Introduction to Nitric Oxide Supplements<\/a>&#8221; for more information.<\/p>\n<p>Other chemical names: L-Arginine 2-oxopentanedioate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Also known as AKG or AAKG.\u00a0 Arginine alpha-ketoglutarate is a salt composed of 2 molecules of the conditionally-essential amino acid L-arginine, plus alpha-ketoglutarate, a\u00a0Krebs Cycle\u00a0intermediate and\u00a0nitrogen transporter\u00a0(via conversion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,1],"tags":[63,86,132,133,704,706,708,709],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17"}],"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=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}