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But consuming more than 4 g per day may cause nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal cramps, and a fishy body odor

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Its main function is to maintain metabolic homeostasis by importing pyruvate into the mitochondrial matrix for utilization in intermediary metabolism in the TCA cycle

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