ornithine – nonessential amino acid

ornithine –  technically called “L-ornithine – non-proteinogenic amino acid – anti-fatigue

Nonprotein amino acid which is quite unique meaning that it doesn’t group up to form proteins in the body.

Works with arginine in the urea cycle where arginine and ornithine turn into each other in order to balance out urea and ammonia levels in the body.

Reducing Fatigue

**Ammonia is packaged up as carbamoyl phosphate, binds to ornithine, and BOOM citrulline is the result.**

can reduce fatigue thought to be related to reducing ammonia.

When ammonia gets elevated it can cause oxidative damage and can impair the ability of a cell to make energy as efficiently as it did before.

Potential use for ornithine

The potential for more mental than physical results like improve fatigue associated with overwork, and alongside that improve mood while reducing irritability.

Foods containing ornithine

This primarily includes meat, eggs and dairy products.

Nuts – coconut, peanuts and walnuts.

Grains – oats and wheat

Beans – carob and soybeans

Articles:

IF YOU’RE WONDERING WHAT ORNITHINE IS, WHY PEOPLE SUPPLEMENT WITH IT, AND HOW IT CAN BENEFIT YOU

ornithine is non-protein amino acid

Research:

l-Ornithine stimulates growth hormone release in a manner dependent on the ghrelin system.

Effects of time of L-ornithine administration on the diurnal rhythms of plasma growth hormone, melatonin, and corticosterone levels in mice.

L-ornithine supplementation attenuates physical fatigue in healthy volunteers by modulating lipid and amino acid metabolism.

A randomized, double-masked, placebo-controlled crossover trial on the effects of L-ornithine on salivary cortisol and feelings of fatigue of flushers the morning after alcohol consumption.

Hyperammonemia results in reduced muscle function independent of muscle mass.

Ammonia lowering reverses sarcopenia of cirrhosis by restoring skeletal muscle proteostasis.

Effects of supplementation with branched chain amino acids and ornithine aspartate on plasma ammonia and central fatigue during exercise in healthy men.

L-ornithine supplementation attenuates physical fatigue in healthy volunteers by modulating lipid and amino acid metabolism.

Efficacy of L-ornithine-L-aspartate as an adjuvant therapy in cirrhotic patients with hepatic encephalopathy.

Ammonia – Hyperammonemia, bane of the brain.