Glycine and alanine show a special ability to enhance alcohol metabolism. Alcohol is a powerful anti-nutrient. It harms or destroys several nutrients that are needed for the efficient alcohol metabolism. Alcohol inhibits the actions of pepsin and trypsin, digestive enzymes. These enzymes are necessary to provide other nutrients from food needed for alcohol metabolism.
Alcohol inhibits the absorption of almost all amino acids.
These amino acids are necessary to insure proper brain function, and are also of importance as coenzymes in alcohol metabolism. Alcohol promotes the excretion of magnesium, an extremely important mineral in helping to promote emotional calmness. It is also an activator of many enzymes. Calcium in the bloodstream is decreased by 200 percent after alcohol ingestion. The same happens to potassium, vitamin A, thiamin, pyridoxine, pantothenic acid, and folic acid.