Glutathione – Your Body’s Master Antioxidant
A serum that you often hear about everywhere, a serum that makes you think that it will lift you up when you get sick! So what is this molecule, let’s take a look:
Glutathione is the most important endogenous antioxidant in our body, a tripeptide composed of glycine, cysteine and glutamic acid. Endogenous means that it is produced in your body, so why do we take it from outside? In some cases, we need to take this molecule from outside more or its production is insufficient.
In which cases is there a glutathione deficiency?
Some symptoms may tell us that the body lacks glutathione
- Feeling tired and sluggish all the time
- Lack of quality sleep
- Brain fog symptoms (difficulty concentrating, difficulty thinking, inability to focus)
- Frequent illness and weak immune system
What happens when glutathione decreases?
Because oxidative stress increases with decreased glutathione;
- Cancer
- Endocrine diseases such as diabetes
- Cardiovascular diseases, heart attack
- Neurodegenerative diseases, Alzheimer’s dementia
- Autoimmunity
- Increased incidence of infectious diseases
- Acceleration of aging
Who consumes more glutathione?
- Alcohol consumption
- High toxin load
- Everything that increases inflammation
It is a very valuable molecule that performs very important cellular functions.
Who has insufficient glutathione intake?
Unfortunately, as people who eat a western diet today, switching to a diet rich in healthy, unprocessed foods, antioxidant-rich foods, anti-inflammatory food groups will increase glutathione and glutathione precursor production.
Glutathione-rich foods:
- Asparagus
- Avocado
- Banana
- Broccoli
- Carrot
- Spinach
- Strawberry
- Tomato
In addition, supplementation of this valuable antioxidant may be necessary during the acute or chronic phase of an illness, during the recovery phase when toxin load is high, or in the presence of symptoms suggestive of glutathione deficiency.
This antioxidant molecule, which is very difficult to absorb when taken orally, is administered intravenously, allowing it to act more quickly.
With this treatment, we achieve the effects of preventing cell damage, removing toxins from the body and improving liver function.
