GRANADA, Spain, Aug. 6 (UPI) -- Taking a supplement of the food additive glycine helps to prevent degenerative diseases such as osteoporosis, Spanish researchers report.
A doctoral thesis presented at the University of Granada established that degenerative diseases may be due to a lack of the amino acid glycine, which is present in foods such as fish, meat or dairy products.
Dr. Patricia de Paz Lugo supervised by Drs. Enrique Melendez Hevia, David Melendez Morales and Jose Antonio Lupianez Cara established that the direct intake of glycine as a food additive helps to prevent arthrosis and other degenerative diseases, in addition to other diseases related to a weakness in the mechanical structure of the organism, including the difficulty of repairing physical injuries.
De Paz Lugo studied the effect of the glycine supplement on the diet of 600 volunteers affected by different diseases such as arthrosis, physical injuries or osteoporosis. The patients analyzed were aged 4 to 85, but the average age was 45.
Glycine, administered in daily doses of 10 grams divided into two doses of 5 grams in the morning and at night, resulted in a general improvement in degenerative diseases in most cases in two weeks to four months.
