Glutathione
The most potent antioxidant in your body
Glutathione is an amino acid and is made of three components: glutamic acid, cysteine, glycine.
It is critical for life in every cell in your body and vital for the operation of your liver.
I am including glutathione in the section on detoxification since it is the most powerful antioxidant in your body. I have read that it is 5000 times more powerful than others. It is found throughout your body and it is made in your body. As with everything in your body raw materials are required to make it. My reading indicates that vitamins C has five electrons to donate, vitamin D has three electrons to donate, and glutathione has 1 million electrons to donate.
It is also vital not only in detoxification of yourselves would also it is intimately involved in the energy production in yourselves. Your body cannot produce ATP without glutathione. Indeed your cells die if glutathione levels drop too far and cells can live longer without oxygen and water and food then they can without glutathione. So it is clearly very important.
So this got me asking some questions.
I wonder, if you have a very high level of toxicity in the cells, and the glutathione is being used up to handle the toxicity, is it possible that there is insufficient glutathione for the energy/ATP pathway which could lead to a low energy state? Could this then lead to further toxicity within the cell and eventual cell death? If you are dealing with a large toxic problem in your body and had insufficient precursors to build sufficient glutathione could this cause the feeling of low energy and physical exhaustion? Could this therefore also form part of the symptomology of illnesses when we feel tired/exhausted when we are sick with colds, flu, and other things such as MP, chronic fatigue syndrome and similar such maladies? Would making sure that you get sufficient foods with the precursors to glutathione combined with the storage boost like milk thistle curcumin and omega-3 supplementation not only help make sure that you have plenty of glutathione for intracellular toxic cleanup but also could this help boost your energy because of its intimate involvement with ATP?
In addition to detoxification and its vital role in facilitating ATP production and therefore production of energy within the cells, glutathione is involved in DNA synthesis and repair, protein synthesis, it helps make hormones, it enhances your entire system and systems, it prevents oxidative damage and helps prevent inflammation.
I have read conflicting information whether you can supplement with glutathione. I would expect that since it is manufactured in your body and is found in every cell in your body that it would be better to make sure you have sufficient food precursors in order for your body to produce sufficient glutathione.
Storage boosters
You can look into milk thistle seed which contains silymarin. This helps prevent depletion of glutathione in your liver. Also look at curcumin which is found in turmeric. This helps to increase glutathione levels in tissues. Omega-3 supplementation with DHA (docosahexaenoic acid), which would suggest fish oil, for vegetarians you could look at algae.
There may be others that I have not yet found.
Food precursors
Whilst this is not a complete list, it will serve to get you started:
- Fish
- Raw eggs (from pasture-fed free range organic hens)
- Asparagus
- Avocados
- Spinach (avoid very high in oxalates)
- Broccoli
- Cantaloupe melon
- Garlic
- Tomatoes
- Strawberries
- Cabbage
- Walnuts
- Raw milk
It is worth doing your own research into this important material.
13/10/2023 – NOTE
As with many things, it appears that taking large doses of Glutathione may be harmful. Some stories on this website:
