{"id":379,"date":"2009-04-27T06:40:20","date_gmt":"2009-04-27T13:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glossary.ultimatefatburner.com\/?p=379"},"modified":"2015-02-14T17:39:27","modified_gmt":"2015-02-14T22:39:27","slug":"dphenylalanine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/dphenylalanine\/","title":{"rendered":"D-Phenylalanine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;D&#8221; isomer of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/lphenylalanine\/\" target=\"_blank\">L-phenylalanine<\/a>, an essential amino acid.\u00a0 D-phenylalanine has been used as an alternative treatment for pain relief, on the strength of its alleged ability to inhibit enkephalin breakdown. The supporting studies have been described as &#8220;<a class=\"plink\" href=\"http:\/\/keckmedicine.adam.com\/content.aspx?productId=127\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">weak and contradictory<\/a>,&#8221; however, with negative results in <a class=\"plink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/3524509\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">humans<\/a> and <a class=\"plink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/3515291\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">primates<\/a>.\u00a0 It&#8217;s also claimed that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/694233\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">d-phenylalanine increases brain phenethylamine concentration<\/a>, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/6671633\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this is disputed by other research<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>May be included in supplements as a part of &#8220;DLPA&#8221;, or DL-phenylalanine, which is a 50-50 mixture (i.e., a &#8220;racemic&#8221; mixture) of the 2 isomers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;D&#8221; isomer of L-phenylalanine, an essential amino acid.\u00a0 D-phenylalanine has been used as an alternative treatment for pain relief, on the strength of its alleged ability to [&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":[332,371,390,737,750],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379"}],"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=379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}