Sometimes sports drinks contain glutamine Why is this helpfu

Sometimes sports drinks contain glutamine. Why is this helpful? Glutamine helps to minimize lactic acid build up in muscles. Glutamine acts as a diuretic. Glutamine transports lactic acid from muscle tissue, aiding in recovery. Glutamine is an antioxidant that prevents cell damage.

Solution

All are true.

Glutaminepool in your muscle cella helps produce bicarbonates to neutilize the effect of lactic acid build up.

It helps keep your body from getting too acidic by allowing acid to be excreated in our urine.

It increase protein synthesis in muscles and also transport lactic acids from muscles.

After conversion into glutamate it can be used to create antioxidant enzyme, glutathione which reduces free radical activity in body.