{"id":380,"date":"2009-04-27T06:38:09","date_gmt":"2009-04-27T13:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glossary.ultimatefatburner.com\/?p=380"},"modified":"2015-02-14T17:40:52","modified_gmt":"2015-02-14T22:40:52","slug":"lphenylalanine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/lphenylalanine\/","title":{"rendered":"L-Phenylalanine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An essential amino acid.\u00a0 L-Phenylalanine is also the\u00a0precursor to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/ltyrosine\/\" target=\"_blank\">l-tyrosine<\/a>\u00a0as well as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/phenethylamine-pea\/\" target=\"_blank\">phenethylamine (PEA)<\/a>. It may be included in certain weight loss\/bodybuilding supplements for this reason, as both metabolites\u00a0have mood\/cognitive effects.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jn.nutrition.org\/content\/103\/10\/1454.full.pdf+html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Phenylalanine is a product of aspartame metabolism<\/a>.\u00a0 Various activists\u00a0insist\u00a0it&#8217;s\u00a0(partly) responsible for the reputed (and often exaggerated) side effects of the sweetener,\u00a0since it&#8217;s a &#8220;neurotoxin&#8221; when taken in isolation.\u00a0\u00a0This claim is\u00a0based on studies of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mayoclinic.org\/diseases-conditions\/phenylketonuria\/basics\/definition\/con-20026275?DSECTION=all\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">phenylketonuria (PKU)<\/a>,\u00a0a genetic disorder that affects\u00a0phenylalanine metabolism.\u00a0\u00a0However, there is no reason to believe that small amounts of phenylalanine, taken in supplemental form, will\u00a0have any adverse effects\u00a0on healthy people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An essential amino acid.\u00a0 L-Phenylalanine is also the\u00a0precursor to l-tyrosine\u00a0as well as phenethylamine (PEA). It may be included in certain weight loss\/bodybuilding supplements for this reason, as both [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[138,404,597,600,697,750,752,771],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380"}],"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=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}