{"id":265,"date":"2009-03-26T06:57:47","date_gmt":"2009-03-26T13:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glossary.ultimatefatburner.com\/alpha-glycerophosphocholine.php"},"modified":"2009-03-26T06:57:47","modified_gmt":"2009-03-26T13:57:47","slug":"alpha-glycerophosphocholine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/alpha-glycerophosphocholine\/","title":{"rendered":"Alpha Glycerophosphocholine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Abbreviated Alpha-GPC; also known as choline alfoscerate. Alpha-GPC is a derivative of the essential nutrient choline.\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Choline_metabolism.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Choline serves a number vital functions<\/a>, including maintaining the structure\/function of cell membranes, normalizing homocysteine levels (via a metabolite, betaine), and serving as a precursor for acetylcholine, a neurotransmitter important to learning and memory.\u00a0\u00a0 Alpha-GPC has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/12637119\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">neuroprotective and cognitive effects<\/a>, and may also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/1577400\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">potentiate growth hormone release<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abbreviated Alpha-GPC; also known as choline alfoscerate. Alpha-GPC is a derivative of the essential nutrient choline.\u00a0\u00a0 Choline serves a number vital functions, including maintaining the structure\/function of cell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[67,93,94,257,258,488,696],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265"}],"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=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}