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Ammonia Scavengers

Popular supplements to remove ammonia:

• l-arginine / creatine / l-lysine / probiotics

Alternative News:

• L-Carnitine supplementation to reverse hyperammonemia in a patient undergoing chronic valproic acid treatment: A case report - J Int Med Res. 2017 Jan 1 - "Carnitine supplementation was useful for reversal of her hyperammonemia, allowing her to continue valproic acid for seizure control" - See L-carnitine at Amazon.com.
• Probiotics found to reduce hepatic encephalopathy - Science Daily, 4/25/13 - "Ammonia, produced by gut bacteria, is thought to be one of the main mediators of cerebral dysfunction in HE. Probiotics work by enriching the gut flora with a non-urease producing microorganisms, which decrease ammonia production ... Twice as many patients taking a placebo developed overt HE (the study's primary endpoint) compared to patients taking probiotics in the form of a capsule ... Hepatic encephalopathy is an insidious disease that's caused by an accumulation of toxins in the blood that are normally removed by the liver ... Hepatic encephalopathy is a spectrum of neuropsychiatric abnormalities including personality changes, intellectual impairment and reduced levels of consciousness in patients with liver failure, after exclusion of other known brain disease" - See Garden of Life Primal Defense HSO Probiotic Formula at Amazon.com.

News & Research:

• FDA Approves Drug to Treat Hyperammonemi - Doctor's Guide, 3/18/10
• Researchers Warn: Ammonia Levels May Increase After Lung Transplant Surgery - Doctor's Guide, 2/15/00
• Ammonia accumulation during highly intensive long-lasting cycling: individual observations - Int J Sports Med. 1990 May;11 Suppl 2:S78-84 - "Acute quantitative ammonia production during intensive endurance exercise may be enhanced by a reduced glycogen availability in muscle. However, adequate amounts of glycogen itself do not prevent ammonia production when exercise is at high intensity and long-lasting. The continuous ammonia accumulation in blood during endurance exercise in trained individuals may be the result of a relatively low blood flow to the liver and thereby low clearance in contrast to lactate which may not accumulate due to a high clearance rate in both active and nonactive oxidative muscle fibers. In a number of subjects it was observed that exhaustion, when performing endurance exercise at high exercise intensities, occurred when plasma ammonia levels were high. Muscle cramps occurred in subjects who reached their highest individual ammonia values and seemed not to be related to serum potassium, plasma lactate, or muscle glycogen. These individual observations give rise to the hypothesis that high intramuscular ammonia levels may be related to the etiology of muscle exhaustion and muscle cramping during highly intensive endurance exercise"