Contra-indication:

Glutamine helps clear toxic wastes through the kidneys, and should be therefore be avoided by people with chronic renal failure.

Glutamine is the most abundant protein (amino acid) in the body, especially in the brain, skeletal muscle and blood. Extra glutamine may be helpful in alleviating symptoms as follows:

• Following illness, injury or surgery

• At times of great stress

• While recovering from infection

• When healing digestive disorders

• For ‘leaky gut’ or food allergy

• If your immune system needs help

• In periods of heavy exercise

• To help reduce cravings for alcohol, cigarettes, drugs and sugar

• To help with detoxification

(please read this important notice concerning supplement medical claims)

Further reading: The Ultimate Nutrient Glutamine.

Higher Nature

Higher Nature have introduced Food FormTM vitamins and minerals to the UK and Europe. Their 'True Food CTM' was the first nutrition supplement product in the UK and Europe to provide a concentrated source of vitamin C truly bonded to proteins, carbohydrates and lipids in exactly the same was as in an orange.

Higher Nature state that 'by pre-digesting the Ultra Food FormTM range of nutrients, they ensure that people with food sensitivities or allergies will not react to these supplements. Why? Because food allergies are triggered by long chain proteins and polysaccharides in foods.

In Higher Nature Ultra Food FormTM nutrition supplements these big molecules have been pre-digested and broken down by natural enzymes, making absorption easy, and sensitivity reactions very unlikely.

Leaky Gut Preparations

Glutamine is the primary fuel of the lining of the digestive system and the immune system and as such helps the digestive lining repair itself and helps maintain immunity.

Butyric acid is the natural end result of the bacterial breakdown of fibres from wholefoods, such as fruit and vegetables. Butyric acid feeds the cells of the intestinal lining and is essential in maintaining the integrity of the gastro-intestinal wall. Butyric acid helps L.acidophilus and B.bifidum adhere to gut epithelial tissue. Butyric acid helps to increase the natural healing mechanism of the gut tissue after antifungal treatment for candida. Butyric acid has a normalising effect upon the production of ‘on site’ enzymes and has a supportive role upon intestinal immune resistance.

Liquorice helps maintain the health of the epithelial tissue lining the digestive tract.

Cabagin enhances the growth and effectiveness of natural lactic bacteria in the gut and helps soothe the lining of the stomach and the entire digestive tract.

Zinc is required to help maintain the natural defences of the intestinal mucosal barrier and for tissue repair.

Vitamin A is needed to maintain healthy mucous membranes and skin, and for immune function.

Omega-3 fatty acids help maintain the integrity of the epithelial tissue lining the intestinal tract, skin (and lungs).