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My life is boring as fuck compared to

bluechromis'... although there is at least an intern here with a crush on me, as indeed there is one most summers. I'm being nice to this year's, because he isn't annoying about it. I think HLM might like me too.

On yesterday's advice, I did decide to split a bottle of stuff that has glutamine and creatine in it with P-boy after talking to him about it for a while, yesterday... and got to pay him back using PayPal, so it didn't even come out of my normal budget. Looking forward to being slightly bigger and a lot less sore, if it works. Also, speaking of products, I found out that Coraline is coming out in paperback on August 1st... okay... so I'll continue to be deprived, but not for too much longer.

Forgot to mention: apparently we're hiring another permanent employee, the first new girl software engineer in a really long time. She's an algorithm chick--and I don't know any algorithm stuff. I feel faintly threatened, even though I'm the one who's been here for four years and has fingers in all the big internal products. The human psyche is a silly thing.

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Not meaning to nit-pick, but I don't see any glutamine in it. It has glutamic acid (http://www.gnc.com/health_notes/Supp/Glutamic_Acid.htm). I know the write-up says it has glutamine (http://www.gnc.com/health_notes/Supp/Glutamine.htm), but...maybe I'm missing something.

If you want more info about the differences, I'll copy some stuff from "Prescription for Natural Healing" on both products, later in the day when I get time.

Um, that sucks. Thanks for pointing out that little detail. I saw that in the ingredient list but assumed it was the same thing since the writeup said glutamine. Some of the glutamine supplements on netrition.com do seem to contain both L-glutamine and glutamic acid, at least, so one assumes I won't explode and die if we do get this stuff and some plain glutamine too. I hope we're able to change the order though. :(

I would be curious about the differences--don't go terribly far out of your way if you're busy though. I can do some research now that I know there's a difference.

Sorry it took me so long. I was doing some scanning today so I ended up scanning and uploading the glutamine info.
part 1 (http://www.webfaery.com/glutamine1.pdf) and part 2 (http://www.webfaery.com/glutamine2.pdf)

And now you've got a potential girlfriend there! :)

I was going to say the same thing as webfaery, but she's too quick, so I'll leave you two to it.

EAS's products page has an ingredient listing for Betagen HP as well (you have to choose it from the "muscle growth" dropdown menu and then click "supplement facts"... and guess what they list in the ingredients? That's right, 2 grams of L-glutamine.

All the other ingredients are listed as being the same, but netrition groups them differently. So now we're thinking the mistake is due to some intern translating between the two forms. I would tend to trust EAS's page a bit more when it comes to the ingredients, since they are the manufacturer, after all...

Netrition.com has earned themselves a nasty letter from me, though.

I was looking at the ingredients on my Betagen (not the HP version) and it has glutamine...so I thought it was strange that the HP version would have glutamic acid, instead. There are other differences, tho'.
I do also take glutamine separately, and won't be continuing with the betagen when I finish it. I have found no advantage at all to taking creatine. It doesn't seem to help me. Some women do complain of bloating when they take creatine. I didn't experience that either.
The glutamine definitely aids in recovery.

Your journal is not boring, even when compared to

bluechromis'.
Different and interesting!
I think you already knew that is how I feel, but there it is for posterity.

You are so sweet, hiddenbear. I was being about 55% sarcastic anyway, which was probably obvious, but it's nice to hear otherwise anyway.

Why are you reading this?

no glutamine as far as I can see

groan

don't know if you still want it...

I'm sure you scare her more than she scares you...

Wait just a minute...

Re: Wait just a minute...

Nay my friend.

hug