How Is Glutathione Important To Your Health?

Here are some things that you might like to know about glutathione: glutathione is a compound made naturally in the body it is our bodies primary detoxifier and acts as an immune system enhancer, it is the most important and abundant antioxidant in the body, as an antioxidant it has the ability to recycle itself and it recycles other antioxidants such as vitamin C and vitamin E. Since glutathione has the ability to recycle itself, it never becomes a free radical itself unlike other antioxidants which do become free radicals after neutralizing free radicals.

We are born with glutathione in our bodies and it decreases with age due to environmental toxins and poor nutrition. Normally glutathione recycles itself except for when toxic levels become too high. These days we have polluted our environment with heavy metals pesticides and various other nasty items. Generally speaking we tend to have a pretty poor diet that consists largely of prepackaged and processed food. So environmental toxins and other stressers tend to cause us to deplete our glutathione levels and then, due to our poor diet, we don’t eat correctly to replace those levels and that is why over time our systems get depleted levels of glutathione.

It turns out that glutathione is made up of the amino acids cystine, glycine and glutamine. The secret of its power is the sulfur molecules, sulfur is a very sticky molecule and allows heavy metals and free radicals stick to it so it can flush them out of the body. So eating sulfur containing foods, such as, sulfurous vegetables like broccoli, garlic and asparagus are good. Alpha Lipoic acid, folic vitamin B12 and B6 and milk thistle will all help your body to produce more glutathione. Bioactive whey protein is also a good source to replenish glutathione levels.

So increasing the glutathione levels in your body will not only help you recover from stress and enhance your immune system but it will also help you recover faster from exercising and it will increase your mental acuity and the ability to concentrate and focus. Another interesting fact about glutathione is that its results are verifiable and quantifiable through blood tests, specifically, through lymphocyte blood tests.

Glutathione therapy is now being used on Parkinsons disease patients, it is not used to make the symptoms disappear but it is used to slow down the progress of Parkinsons and the nice thing about it is that it has no major side effects. As much as 90% of the people who’ve gone on glutathione therapy have experienced dramatic results. This disease causes dopamine receptors in the brain to lose their sensitivity. With this treatment dopamine is allowed to function more effectively, which means dopamine sensitivity is improved as well as the brain serotonin levels that help decrease levels of depression.

This type of glutathione therapy consists of people getting IV drips with saline approximately 1400 mg along with saline. This is done for 10 minutes three times weekly. Glutathione has to be taken with an IV because it is if it is taken orally it is broken down and rendered ineffective by the digestive system.

So if you have Parkinsons disease or any other type of illness this could be a good solution for you. However, the logic of improving your nutrition and taking supplements that will allow your body to create, increase and maintain its own levels of glutathione makes a whole lot of sense. Finding a supplement that is engineered with the right nutrition to help your body produce and maintain its glutathione levels would be a good thing.

by Kurtwill