User:Herb5902/Betaine

amino acid derived from glycine

benefits:

• Heart disease White
• kidney disease
  • reduces serum creatinine and blood urea nitrogen levels
  • FIBRINOLYSIS ↑
  • significant negative correlation between plasma glycine betaine and urine microalbumin
  • osmoprotective role for the kidney
  • increase fractional excretion of uric acid in hyperuricemic mice in a dose-dependent manner
• betaine has protective effect on the hypertonicity‐induced apoptosis.
• effectively restored renal protein level alterations of urate transport-related molecular proteins urate transporter 1, glucose transporter 9, organic anion transporter 1
• diabetes
  • insulin resistance
    • AMP-activated protein kinase is thought to play a central role
• Relieves Aches and Pain
• Diarrhea
• alkaloid
  • high betaine levels were associated with lower risk of the cancer incidence, especially for colorectal cancer.
• Thyroid
• Yeast infections

drawbacks:

• protect bacteria in the urine