L-Carnosine and Reduced Oxidized Glutathione Level

• Influence of l-carnosine on pro-antioxidant status in elite kayakers and canoeists.

  • 2014-12
  • RCT
  • Acta physiologica Hungarica 101(4)
  • • Malgorzata Slowinska-Lisowska
    • A Zembron-Lacny
    • M Rynkiewicz
    • T Rynkiewicz
    • W Kopec

  • PubMed: 25201708
  • DOI: 10.1556/aphysiol.101.2014.008

  8 Insights on

  • Reduced Oxidized Glutathione Level

  • High evidence
  • Athletes

  carnosine prevented an increase in 8-isoprostanes, 3-nitrotyrosine and GSSG concentrations

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  Yes

  Dose

  4 g/d for 14 days