Naka Platinum L-Glutamine Powder 5000mg, Helps Muscle Repair After Exercise and Supports Digestive Health, Vegan, 250g

Naka Platinum L-Glutamine Powder 5000mg Details

Naka Platinum L-Glutamine Powder 5000mg is 5 grams of L-glutamine in one level scoop, from a 250 g tub. The ingredient list is the whole product: Naka lists additional ingredients as none, so there is no flavour, no sweetener, no anti-caking agent and no filler — just the amino acid, stirred into water or juice on an empty stomach once a day.

Naka's claims are muscle and gut: it helps muscle repair after exercise and supports digestive health. Glutamine supports muscle growth and inhibits the catabolism of muscle caused by cortisol; it also fuels cells in the digestive tract and can help rebuild them if they undergo stress and inflammation. Vegan, gluten free, non-GMO, non-irradiated, and made in Canada.

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Quick Facts

Who L-Glutamine 5000mg Is For

• Anyone starting with glutamine who wants the common 5 g dose rather than committing to a 9 g scoop
• People taking it for digestive health — the gut side is half of what Naka claims for it
• Trainers using it for muscle repair after exercise, which is the label's exercise claim
• Label readers who want one ingredient and no second line on the panel
• Anyone who would rather adjust the dose themselves — a 5 g scoop splits and doubles far more easily than a 9 g one

Who this product is NOT for: if you have already settled on glutamine and take it daily, the larger Naka Platinum Ultra L-Glutamine Powder 9000mg is the same amino acid at 9 grams a scoop in a 500 g tub, and the better buy per gram. If you want glutamine as part of a gut formula rather than on its own, Naka Platinum Probiotic and Prebiotic Powder builds a supporting 250 mg into a probiotic. And if you will not drink an unflavoured amino acid, Glutamine Supplements carries capsules and flavoured options.

Vitamart's Take

We stock this as the entry point to glutamine done properly. Five grams is the dose most people land on, and getting it with literally nothing else in the tub means you are buying amino acid rather than a flavour system. For anyone testing whether glutamine does anything for their digestion or their recovery, this is the right size to find out with before committing to a 500 g tub.

One honest note. Glutamine attracts a far longer list of popular claims than its label makes; Naka's are muscle repair after exercise and digestive health, and those are the two we would buy it for. If you already know you want glutamine every day indefinitely, the 9000mg tub wins on cost per gram and this one wins on flexibility.

How L-Glutamine 5000mg Compares

Glutamine products differ on three things only: grams per serving, what else shares the container, and powder versus capsule.

• Versus the 9000mg powder: Naka Platinum Ultra L-Glutamine Powder 9000mg is 9 g a scoop from a 500 g tub. Nearly double the dose and double the glutamine in the container — compare total grams, not tub price.
• Versus glutamine in a blend: Naka Platinum Probiotic and Prebiotic Powder carries 250 mg of L-glutamine. That is a supporting amount in a gut formula — twenty of those servings equal one scoop of this.
• Versus capsules: capsules hold well under a gram each, so 5 g means a fistful. Gram-scale amino acids belong in a tub.
• Versus BCAAs: Naka Platinum Ultra BCAA Powder 10,000mg targets muscle protein synthesis and soreness. Glutamine is the one with a digestive claim attached.

Why Glutamine Sits in Two Different Aisles

Glutamine is unusual in turning up both in the sports aisle and the digestive aisle, and the reason is simply which cells consume it. The cells lining the small intestine use glutamine as their preferred fuel, burning it ahead of glucose — which is why Naka can say it fuels cells in the digestive tract and helps rebuild them when they are under stress and inflammation. Those cells turn over every few days, so they have a standing demand for it, and that demand is met from the circulating pool rather than from whatever you ate.

The muscle claim works from the other end of the same pool. Skeletal muscle is where most of the body's free glutamine is stored, and under training load the hormone cortisol drives the breakdown of muscle protein for fuel. Naka's phrasing is that glutamine supports muscle growth and inhibits that cortisol-driven catabolism — muscle is both the warehouse and a customer. Taking it on an empty stomach, as the label directs, keeps it out of competition with the amino acids from a meal, and the 5 g scoop reflects the fact that glutamine is consumed by the gram rather than the milligram.

How To Use

Adults: Take 1 level scoop (5 g) in water or your favourite juice, 1 time per day on an empty stomach.

Frequently Asked Questions

Pairs Well With

• Post-Workout — where glutamine sits in a recovery routine
• Digestive Aid Supplements — the gut side of what glutamine is taken for
• Intestinal & Colon Support Supplements — for the gut lining specifically
• Amino Acids — the wider amino shelf

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Compare Similar Products

• Naka Platinum Ultra L-Glutamine Powder 9000mg — 9 g a scoop in a 500 g tub, the better cost per gram
• Naka Platinum Probiotic and Prebiotic Powder — 250 mg of glutamine built into a probiotic instead
• Naka Platinum Ultra BCAA Powder 10,000mg — the other recovery amino tub, 2:1:1 BCAAs
• Glutamine Supplements — every glutamine we carry, to compare grams per serving

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Adults: Take 1 level scoop (5g) in water or your favourite juice, 1 time per day on an empty stomach.