Unlock a New, Better Way to Age with This Little-Known Amino Acid

The pace of population aging has never been faster than it is today. By the year 2030, one in six people in the world will be 60 years or older.

But exactly how well are we aging? After seeing a rise in life expectancy in the U.S. since the 1920s, we’re now witnessing a dramatic decline.

There are multiple reasons for this unexpected drop, but one thing is clear…

Americans are not aging well. As a population, we are experiencing health and weight challenges more than ever before.

Approximately two out of three – nearly 69% – U.S. adults are overweight or obese, and one in three, or 36%, are obese. Moreover, rates of obesity continue to climb.

The picture isn’t much better for blood sugar health. A shocking 38% of the adult U.S. population has the early signs of blood sugar issues, including nearly 49% of those who are 65 years old or older. Worse, many of them don’t even realize it’s happening.

So, what does it mean to ‘age well’?

Aging well is about the choices you make every day. And that includes four primary things…

1. Exercising and moving throughout the day
2. Getting enough restful sleep
3. Putting the right things into your body
4. Helping your body rid itself of harmful chemicals and toxins

You see, what your body requires at age 45, 65 or 80 may not be the same as what it needed at age 25.

As you age, there are certain things your body can no longer provide for itself. Being aware of and providing those things can go a long way towards helping you age well.

12 Ways Glycine Can Help You Age Well

While it isn’t as well-known as some of the other amino acids in your body, glycine is used to create proteins for the growth and maintenance of your tissues and cells. It serves as a building block for many essential compounds, including your hormones and enzymes.

The smallest and simplest amino acid, glycine plays a role in nearly every part of your body:

1. Helps your body make glutathione, your body’s master antioxidant that helps prevent cellular and mitochondrial damage, including the signs of early aging*
2. Promotes glycogen storage, making glucose readily available for energy production*
3. Builds and protects collagen – a protein that provides structure to your bones, joints, muscles and connective tissues*
4. Enhances protein synthesis and inhibits protein breakdown to help improve muscle cell growth and reduce muscle wastage*
5. Supports metabolic health, including your weight and healthy blood sugar as well as blood glucose levels already in the normal range*
6. Acts as a calming neurotransmitter in your brain and promotes the production of your “feel good” hormone serotonin for mood, memory and sleep*
7. Supports nervous system health and healthy stress management*
8. Supports healthy digestion by helping to regulate your body’s production of bile acid to assist in the digestion of fat*
9. Supports gut health and the lining of your gastrointestinal tract*
10. Supports your normal detoxification processes*
11. Promotes the production and maintenance of your red blood cells to supply your cells, tissues and organs with oxygen and energy*
12. Excessive amounts of the amino acid methionine from animal protein have been associated with decreased longevity, but increasing the glycine/methione ratio by adding glycine eliminates this risk.

This tiny, yet vitally important amino acid influences your muscles, heart, brain, digestion, blood sugar levels, immune function as well as your vascular and metabolic health in many ways.

Let’s take a closer look at some of its most potentially valuable benefits…

Help Keep Your Muscles Strong and Joints Flexible – No Matter Your Age*

If you’re a bodybuilder, you’ve most likely heard of branched-chain amino acids, or BCAAs, to help catalyze muscle growth.

Glycine also promotes muscle growth. Even more importantly, it helps guard against the breakdown of protein tissue that forms muscle by boosting the level of creatine in your body.*

Your body uses glycine to make creatine, which supplies energy to your muscles and to your nerve cells to repair damage and help them grow back stronger.*

Higher levels of creatine in your muscles enhances their performance in short bursts of activity such as weightlifting or sprinting.

Studies show that boosting creatine can lead to increased muscle strength, greater muscle mass and power. Plus, more creatine may aid in recovery after exercise.

Glycine also plays a role in the production of collagen – it’s the amino acid most needed for collagen synthesis. Approximately 30% of the collagen in your body is composed of glycine.

Collagen is needed for forming connective tissue, such as ligaments and tendons, which is what keeps your joints flexible.

Especially as you age, you need plenty of glycine to help support joint function because of exposure to free radicals over your lifetime.*

Studies show glycine is needed for promoting flexible cartilage and supporting healthy joints.*

In fact, collagen synthesis has been found to be severely diminished in people with stiffness and other joint issues.

The breakdown of cartilage observed in those with joint issues affects the collagen content in the matrix structure of your bones and joints. Collagen damage appears to be the biggest concern.

Increasing your intake of glycine may help promote healthy cartilage by enhancing collagen synthesis.* For all these reasons, serious athletes often choose to include glycine in their supplement regimens.

Glycine’s Role in Whole-Body Cellular Repair

Another potential benefit from glycine is repairing cellular damage caused by the stressors you’re exposed to every day, including cellphone radiation and other electromagnetic frequencies, or EMFs.

As you age, your levels of glutathione can diminish. However, your body still needs this important antioxidant to help resist the stresses of everyday life.

There is a metabolic enzyme called NADPH oxidase, or NOX. Activated in conditions that generate a great deal of oxidative stress, NOX is a major source of damaging reactive oxygen species (ROS).

And ROS can harm your cells and make you age faster…

NOX contributes to many health issues, including insulin resistance and vascular and brain concerns. So, if you can inhibit NOX, you increase NADPH – and your overall health.

There are three primary ways to inhibit NOX and increase NADPH:

1. Lower your average glucose level
2. Cycliecal nutritional ketosis
3. Increase your intake of glycine

Glycine increases NADPH levels by inhibiting the enzyme that breaks it down – NOX.

So, glycine can play a key role in cellular repair as well as lowering oxidative stress and ROS that can damage your tissues and cells.*

How Glycine Impacts Your Metabolic and Heart Health

In addition to being a building block for proteins, glycine plays a major role in multiple metabolic pathways.

Lower levels of glycine in the blood have been consistently found in individuals with metabolic challenges.

Among those with blood pressure concerns, low levels of glycine have also been observed. A recent study with 4,109 individuals found that higher levels of glycine in the blood was linked to optimal metabolic health.*

Researchers believe these results may be due to glycine’s influence on lipid metabolism.*

Your body’s visceral or belly fat – the fat tissue that surrounds your organs deep inside – is associated with the production of cytokines, or the signaling molecules secreted by your immune system.

Higher levels of visceral fat can often mean a higher production of cytokines that triggers an inflammatory response, which can develop into insulin resistance.

Clinical studies suggest glycine supplementation may provide beneficial effects, including improving metabolic health markers.* Supplemental glycine appears to help optimize the secretion of a gut hormone that supports the normal healthy actions of insulin in blood sugar health.*

Here’s something else that’s equally remarkable… In studies where individuals made positive changes in their lifestyle – such as starting to exercise or lose weight – higher glycine concentrations were seen in their blood.

Get the Deep, Restful Sleep You Need with Glycine*

Glycine plays a key role in maintaining a healthy central nervous system (CNS). It is considered one of the most important neurotransmitters, particularly in the brainstem and spinal cord.*

Functioning as a neurotransmitter, glycine can stimulate or calm your brain and nervous system activity. It affects your cognition, mood, appetite and level of comfort.*

Studies show glycine can help improve memory retrieval in young and middle-aged adults when sleep-deprived, such as with jet lag, shift work or disrupted sleep.*

Glycine influences your sleep by helping your body make serotonin, one of your primary sleep and mood hormones. At higher levels, glycine may:

• Enhance sleep quality and promote deep, restful sleep.*
• Increase your sleep efficiency.*
• Help you fall asleep faster.*
• Help you feel more alert during the day.*

Another way glycine affects your sleep is by promoting your optimal body temperature by supporting thermoregulation. When your body is cooler, you fall asleep more quickly.

Studies show glycine allows you to spend more time in REM sleep and move more quickly into deep sleep.

Not only does glycine support healthy sleep at night, it promotes daytime cognitive function, including memory and attention.*

How You can Support Your Body’s Detoxification Processes

Glyphosate, the active ingredient in the bestselling weed killer Roundup and other commonly used herbicides, was declared “a probable carcinogen” in 2015 by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC).

Since then, the Environmental Working Group (EWG) has found dangerous levels of glyphosate in everyday foods – even foods you likely consider healthy.

Toxic glyphosate is used as an herbicide to regulate plant growth and is used extensively on food crops. Each year 280 million pounds of glyphosate are applied to 298 million acres of U.S. crop land.

Millions of pounds of glyphosate are also applied to non-crop areas, such as public parks and land, forests, pastures and rangelands. Your neighbors may even be applying it to their yards.

Unfortunately, glyphosate isn’t staying in yards, fields and crop lands. It’s showing up in peoples’ bodies – and that’s bad news as it’s been shown to have disastrous effects on the body’s gut microbiome, as well as cells.

According to the newest data, more than 80% of U.S. adults and children over six years of age have detectable levels of glyphosate in their urine.

And that’s not surprising, considering you are exposed to this chemical not only through your food, but also the air, soil, rain, municipal water supplies and even vaccines.

GMO foods are likely to contain the most glyphosate, however, even non-genetically modified foods, like wheat, oats, barley and legumes, contain glyphosate.

Farmers also use glyphosate as a desiccant. When applied to these non-organic food crops about two weeks before harvest, it speeds up the drying process for earlier harvesting.

This use may be the most hazardous as it is applied so near to harvest, leading to potentially higher residue levels and greater exposure.

Eating only organically grown food can help minimize your exposure to glyphosate. Glyphosate attaches in places in your body where you need glycine. So, glycine may help support your body’s normal detoxification processes.*

Are You Getting Enough Glycine?

So, where can you find this useful amino acid that many people haven’t even heard of?

High-protein foods, such as meat, fish, poultry, eggs and dairy, contain some glycine, but the best sources of glycine are what most people throw away.

Glycine is concentrated in the collagen and gelatin – proteins not abundantly found in the most popular cuts of meat.

Rather, they are in the scraps like the skin, bone, tendons, ligaments and connective tissue. Bone broth made from these scraps provides an outstanding source of glycine.

Without consuming bone broth daily, the amount of glycine you receive from the typical American diet is small. Most people get around two grams per day.

Your body can make some glycine, but the amounts may be insufficient to meet your metabolic needs, including the synthesis of collagen for your muscles, bones and connective tissue.

To ensure a healthy metabolism, bone and muscle health, recent research confirms that supplemental glycine may be needed.*

Introducing L-Glycine in Convenient Capsule Form

Glycine is a colorless, sweet-tasting crystalline substance that can occur in two different forms – D-glycine and the natural form, L-glycine.

While they are structural isomers, or molecules, of each other, L-glycine is the most common and stable form found in normal biology. Our cells only use the L form of amino acids.

Our L-Glycine provides 1,000 mg of glycine in the form found in natural beings that your body can readily use – L-glycine.

For your convenience, we pack our L-Glycine in vegetarian capsules. Our product is…

• Non-GMO
• Clean and tested for purity
• Not manufactured with ingredients containing wheat, gluten, soy, corn, dairy, egg, fish, shellfish or tree nuts

One of the best things about L-Glycine is that you can custom-tailor its use to your needs.

Want to support your metabolism? Try taking L-Glycine at mealtime, especially when you eat a meal heavy in carbs.*

Would you like to get your sleep back on track? Support restful sleep by taking L-Glycine one hour before bedtime. I recommend taking it with our Sleep Support supplement for best results.*

Want to optimize your benefits for cellular support and longevity? L-Glycine works synergistically with N-acetylcysteine or NAC, providing multiple potential benefits.

Studies show that combining L-Glycine and NAC improves glutathione deficiency, oxidative stress, mitochondrial dysfunction, muscle strength, and supports cognition, as well as your body’s use of insulin and normal inflammatory response.*

Age Well and Be Well with L-Glycine

As we’ve seen, there are certain things your body can no longer provide for itself as you age. Being aware of and providing those things can go a long way towards helping you age well.

In essence, aging well means…

• Helping to avoid the breakdown of muscle tissue so you can exercise and move comfortably at any age.
• Being able to fall asleep and stay asleep so you can experience deep rest at night, while feeling alert and rejuvenated during the day.
• Providing the right building blocks for building and preserving lean body mass, protecting cell health, rebuilding your gut lining and supporting your metabolic health.
• Assisting and supporting your body’s detoxification processes.

Remarkably, L-Glycine can assist in all these areas. From providing the building blocks for the recharging of glutathione, you help protect your cells and mitochondria, and help resist the signs of early cellular aging.*

Age well and take control of your health with L-Glycine. Order your supply today.