Naka Platinum Ultra L-Glutamine Powder 9000mg, Helps Muscle Repair and Digestive Health After Exercise, 500g

Naka Platinum Ultra L-Glutamine 9000mg Powder Details

Naka Platinum Ultra L-Glutamine Powder delivers 9,000 mg of L-glutamine — a full 9 grams — in one level scoop, from a 500 g tub that holds 55 servings. The ingredient list is the entire story: L-glutamine, and nothing else. Naka lists additional ingredients as none, so there is no flavour, no sweetener, no anti-caking agent and no filler in the tub.

Glutamine is an amino acid that supports muscle and gut health naturally. Naka's label claims are specific: it helps restore plasma glutamine levels depleted after periods of physical stress such as prolonged exhaustive exercise, helps support immune system health and digestive system health after periods of physical stress, and helps to assist in muscle cell repair after exercise. Made in Canada.

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Quick Facts

Who Ultra L-Glutamine Is For

• Athletes and heavy trainers restoring plasma glutamine after prolonged exhaustive exercise, which is the claim Naka makes for it
• Anyone taking glutamine for digestive system health after periods of physical stress rather than for the gym
• People who want 9 grams in a single scoop instead of stacking two or three scoops of a lower-dose powder
• Anyone who reads tubs for what else is in them — this one has no second ingredient at all
• People buying glutamine as a standing habit, where a 500 g tub beats a 250 g one on reorders
• Anyone wanting the immune-support side of glutamine after hard physical stress

Who this product is NOT for: If 9 grams is more than you want in a serving, the smaller Naka Platinum L-Glutamine Powder 5000mg is the same amino acid at 5 grams per serving in a 250 g tub, and the better place to start. If you want glutamine as part of a gut formula, Naka Platinum Probiotic and Prebiotic Powder with 250mg L-Glutamine builds it into a probiotic. If you will not drink an unflavoured amino acid in water, Glutamine Supplements has capsules and flavoured options. And if your goal is building muscle generally rather than recovery specifically, whey protein or creatine does more for that.

Vitamart's Take

We stock this because it is glutamine bought the sensible way: in bulk, unadulterated, by the gram. The dose here is measured in grams rather than milligrams, so capsules are a poor fit and a tub is the honest format. Naka's 9 g scoop and empty ingredient list mean you are paying for amino acid and a plastic tub, which is about the best ratio on this shelf.

Two honest points. First, glutamine carries a far longer list of popular claims than its label does — Naka's own claims are narrow and all qualified by "after periods of physical stress," and that qualification is the part people skip. If you are not training hard or recovering from something, the case for 9 grams a day is weaker than the internet suggests. Second, a 9 g scoop is not adjustable in any practical way, so if you want 3 or 5 grams the 250 g tub is the better buy. Buy this one when you have decided on glutamine at a real dose and want the lowest-cost route to it.

How Ultra L-Glutamine Compares

Glutamine products differ on three things only: grams per serving, what else is in the container, and whether you are drinking powder or swallowing capsules.

• Versus the 5000mg powder: Naka Platinum L-Glutamine Powder 5000mg is the 250 g tub at 5 grams per serving. Nearly double the dose per scoop here, and double the tub — compare total grams of glutamine, not tub price.
• Versus glutamine inside a probiotic: Naka Platinum Probiotic and Prebiotic Powder includes 250 mg of L-glutamine — a supporting amount in a gut formula, not a glutamine dose. Thirty-six of those servings equal one scoop of this.
• Versus capsules: capsules hold well under a gram each, so a 9 g serving means a handful of them. For gram-scale amino acids, powder is simply the practical format.
• Versus protein powder: whey and other proteins contain glutamine, but bound inside protein chains and in amounts you cannot specify. Free-form L-glutamine is what the label claims are built on.

What Is L-Glutamine, and Why 9 Grams?

L-glutamine is the most abundant free amino acid in human blood and muscle, and it is classed as conditionally essential — your body makes plenty of it under ordinary circumstances, and runs short when demand spikes. That is the whole premise of the supplement, and it is why Naka's claims are all framed around periods of physical stress: prolonged exhaustive exercise measurably lowers plasma glutamine, and a depleted pool is what this powder is sold to restore.

Two tissues explain where it goes. The cells lining your small intestine use glutamine as their preferred fuel — they burn it in preference to glucose — which is why glutamine turns up in gut formulas and why Naka says it fuels cells in the digestive tract and can help rebuild them if they undergo stress and inflammation. Immune cells are the other large consumer, dividing rapidly and drawing on the same pool, which links the two claims: when hard training depletes plasma glutamine, the gut and the immune system compete for what is left. In muscle, glutamine's role is the opposite of breakdown — it supports muscle growth and inhibits the catabolism of muscle caused by cortisol, the hormone that rises under training load.

The dose follows from the biology. Glutamine is consumed by the gram, not the milligram, so meaningful amounts sit in the 5 to 10 gram range — which is why this scoop is 9 grams and the whole category is sold in tubs.

How To Use

Adults: take 1 level scoop (9 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
• Poor Digestion & Gut Health — the digestive side of what glutamine is taken for
• Boost Immune System — immune cells draw on the same glutamine pool
• Amino Acids — the wider amino shelf, for building out a recovery stack

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Compare Similar Products

• Naka Platinum L-Glutamine Powder 5000mg — 5 grams per serving in a 250 g tub, the smaller entry point
• Naka Platinum Probiotic and Prebiotic Powder with 250mg L-Glutamine — glutamine built into a gut formula instead
• Naka Platinum Pro Creatine Monohydrate — the other single-ingredient tub most recovery stacks include
• Glutamine Supplements — every glutamine we carry, to compare grams per serving

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Adults: Take 1 level scoop (9g) in water or your favourite juice, 1 time per day on an empty stomach.