What’s GLUTATHIONE?

August 3, 2009 by admin
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Glutathione (pronounced “gloota-thigh-own”) also known as GSH is the body’s essential health AID – Antioxidant, Immune booster and Detoxifier. This small protein, produced naturally in the body, maintains these three crucial protective functions. In fact, your life depends on Glutathione. Without it your cells would disintegrate from unrestrained oxidation, your body would have little resistance to bacteria, viruses and cancer, and your liver would shrivel up from the eventual accumulation of toxins.

Glutathione is not yet a household word. Even doctors who have heard the term may have only a vague idea of it. In the not too distance future, this critical substance will be on everyone’s vitamin shelf. Our grandparents didn’t even know what cholesterol and vitamins were. Today we are all quite knowledgable about both of them. In the last five years, over 35,000 medical articles about Glutathione have been published, and this scientific understanding is gradually becoming common knowledge.

Each and every cell in the body is responsible for its own supply of glutathione and must have the necessary raw materials to make it. Illness, stress, fatigue and even exercise put our bodies under great pressure to produce vast quantities of Glutathione. Glutathione levels also diminish as we age and many diseases normally associated with aging have been linked to glutathione deficiency.

WHY GLUTATHIONE IS ESSENTIAL TO HEALTH

Glutathione’s three major roles in the body are summarized by the letters A-I-D – Antioxidant, Immune booster, and Detoxifier – three critical processes driven by glutathione.

THE MASTER ANTIOXIDANT (AID) Over the past thirty years researchers have explored the critical role of antioxidants in good health. It’s not surprising that the body itself manufactures its own natural antioxidants. The most important of these is glutathione. Since all other antioxidants depend upon the presence of glutathione to function properly, scientists call it “The Master Antioxidant.”

BENEFITS FOR THE IMMUNE SYSTEM (AID) The immune system’s function is to identify and attack germs and other invaders, including cancer cells. A body with plenty of glutathione fights off these threats more easily by denying most of them and confronting the few that get through with an enhanced immune system. Elevated glutathione levels enable the body to produce more white blood cells – the most important front line defense of the immune system. Glutathione plays a central role in the functions of these immune cells. Dr. Gustavo Bounous, a leading glutathione expert says, “The limiting factor in the proper activity of our lymphocytes (white blood cells) is the availability of glutathione.” In other words, healthy growth and activity of immune cells depend upon glutathione’s availability. Simply put, glutathione is food for the immune system.

NATURAL DETOXIFICATION (AID) Whether we know it or not, we are continually inhaling and ingesting natural and synthetic toxins. They are unavoidable in these modern times, both in our polluted cities and our engineered food supplies. When the body has its health and the nourishment it needs it works tirelessly to eliminate toxins and protect itself, but increasing levels of environmental pollution are depleting its stores of glutathione more and more rapidly. Our main organ of detoxification is the liver the body’s most concentrated source of glutathione. Studies show that low glutathione levels lead to poor liver function, causing more and more toxins to circulate through the body and resulting in damage to individual cells and organs.

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