Re: jessesmom1987- I am having MAJOR issues w/ Ammonia too!
I discovered the Glutamine connection when I had a definite "zombie" reaction to it. You can read my thread of when I was in the middle of trying to figure out the amino's with the liver detox pathways, and how I figured out the ammonia issue. I have alot of information about it--lots of reading to do, but it's very interesting and sure does cause a huge light bulb to go off.
I had no idea how my sick liver was the reason for the ammonia backing up in my system either. Ammonia comes with different things, bacterias,
parasites etc...the problem with the ammonia backing up and not getting processed out....comes from the liver not being able to do it's job in converting it to urea like it's supposed to, for it to be eliminated through the kidneys.
The Cutler book "Amalgam Illness" has alot of good information in it..that's how I first figured out the glutamine connection...and then it dawned on me when reading the Lyme neurotoxins information, that ammonia is the main issue with Lyme's--which I had been hitting with homeopathics. Ah-ha! Light bulbs were going off all over the place.
Here's some links for threads for you to read...I know it's alot. Probably...you feel a "brain fog" with it, and have insomnia? The heart, brain, and liver are places the ammonia "settles" :( Getting the liver cleared out with
Liver Flushes is very important too! And if there are any
parasites blocking the liver/bile ducts, they also need to be killed and cleared out.
coffee enemas also help alot with the liver.
L-Ornithine is what the liver needs to convert the ammonia into urea...L-Aspartic acid is what the brain needs for the pathway in the brain for the ammonia that is converted to glutamine there. Both need to be taken. There have been scientic studies about the two of them together being effective.
There is an L-Ornithine/Aspartate you can get in one product together, but it is $60 a bottle. You can just get the L-Ornithine (an amino acid), and either get Magnesium/Potassium Aspartate (which means it has aspartic acid with it), or get L-Aspartic acid. I found both on
http://www.iherb.com
Don't get the ornithine/arginine together. Arginine will cause herpes family viruses to flare up. More people have the viruses than have a clue.
Read the whole thread, and the links for the Lyme toxins.
//www.curezone.org/forums/fm.asp?i=1350012
The next 3 are all in the same thread.
//www.curezone.org/forums/fm.asp?i=1371095
//www.curezone.org/forums/fm.asp?i=1371450
//www.curezone.org/forums/fm.asp?i=1371439