Of the 22 amino acids, glycine is the second most widespread amino acid in the body. It’s processed in the liver and is used most heavily in the central nervous system and the digestive system. Glycine helps in managing blood sugar, producing heme which is a key component in red blood cells for optimal oxygen transporting. It’s one of the three amino acids that are required to make the body’s most powerful antioxidant, glutathione. Within the central nervous system, glutathione works with taurine and GABA as an inhibitory neurotransmitter. Glycine works at the brain stem removing potassium and chloride halting over-excitability of the nervous system.
In this study, glycine was entirely successful in the complete disappearance of seizures in two siblings, born with the genetic condition 3-phosphoglycerate dehydrogenase deficiency.
Anecdotal: With my son, glycine levels were extremely low and replenished through supplementation. His seizures completely disappeared as well over three years ago.
Glycine is abundant in bone broth and can be found as supplements.
