Figure 3.

Chronic low-grade inflammation diseases and glycine. There are diseases that go through a low-grade inflammatory process and maintains decreased glycine concentrations in the body. Glycine, despite not being an essential amino acid, requires its consumption to maintain adequate concentrations in the body and to carry out its activity in the different organs. Glycine decreases the expression of proinflammatory cytokines through the inhibition of NF-kB and favors the expression of anti-inflammatory cytokines, thus reducing the feedback of the chronic inflammatory process that occurs in some diseases.