Common side effects include nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and constipation, which typically improve as your body adjusts to treatment
This is why research groups around the world are trying to engineer microbes to act as edible drug factories
Losing muscle decreases your mitochondrial abundance, which can slow your metabolism and make it harder to lose weight in the long term
In LPS-induced inflammatory mice, L-theanine treatment reduced the acute liver injury by inhibition of the concentrations of ALT and AST, the level of hepatic total superoxide dismutase (T-SOD), and malondialdehyde (MDA) ( With regard to kidney protection, in the doxorubicin (DOX) induced acute nephrotoxicity rat models, it was found that the treatment with L-theanine could attenuate the decrease of creatinine clearance, inhibit the production of lipid peroxidation in the kidney, and inhibit the reduction of glutathione content and SOD activity after DOX administration (90)
When its happening quietly in the background, it can impact the reproductive system without showing up in basic bloodwork
Combination therapy increases cost/time but offers higher durability