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Betaine

Betaine is a specific active substance and metabolic agent rather than a broad therapeutic drug class. Read more about Betaine

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About Betaine.

Betaine is a specific active substance and metabolic agent rather than a broad therapeutic drug class.

Pharmacologically, it functions as an organic methyl donor that remethylates homocysteine to methionine via the liver enzyme betaine-homocysteine methyltransferase.

Therapeutically, it is indicated to lower elevated blood and urine homocysteine concentrations in pediatric and adult patients with homocystinuria, including disorders arising from cystathionine beta-synthase deficiency, 5,10-methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase deficiency, or cobalamin cofactor metabolism defects.

By reducing toxic accumulations of homocysteine, it helps prevent serious complications such as thromboembolism, skeletal abnormalities, and neurological deterioration.