Glutathione (pronounced "gloota-thigh-own") 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.
Without it, your cells would disintegrate from unrestrained oxidation, your body
would have little resistance to bacteria, viruses and cancer and your liver
would shrivl up from the evetual accumulation of toxins. Each and every cell in
the body is responsible for its it's own supply of glutathione, and must have the
necessary raw materials to make it. Glutathione is always in great demand and
is rapidly consumed when we experience any sort of pressure-illness, stress,
fatigue and even exercise. Glutathione is a critical substance. There was a
time when only scientists heard of cholesterol and vitamins, but today
everyone knows about them. Now its glutathione's turn. Elevated glutathione
levels enable the body to produce more white blood cells-the most important
front line defense of the immune system. 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. Milk thistle has long been
advocated for liver problems. It turns out that this herb works by modestly
elevating glutathione levels. Glutathione provides the body tools to fight off
these threats naturally. Healthy people also benefit from elevated glutathione
levels through an enhanced ability to fight off toxins, infectious disease,
pre-cancerous cells and the aging process itself. As an essential AID to
health, glutathione works as the master Antioxidant in our body, neutralizes
free radicals, optimizes the Immune system and Detoxifies a long list of
pollutants and carcinogens. However ,the body's glutathione levels are not
raised by eating glutathione, since it is poorly absorbed through the digestive
system. It must be manufactured within the cells of the body.
Therefore, the best way to raise glutathione levels is by providing the building
blocks used by the cells to make it themselves. Pharmaceutical medicine has
created drugs that do this very effectively, and they have their uses in critical
situations. But they also have side effects and repeated use is clearly
inadvisable. Recently scientists have studied natural ways to raise glutathione
levels by safe, reliable dietary means. The emergence of bioactive whey
proteins is an exciting step forward in nutritional supplementation. Whey, a
large group of proteins, is a constituent of milk from humans and other
mammals and under ideal circumstances contain the building-blocks of
glutathione.. Many whey products are marketed to health-conscious people but
they vary greatly in their protein content, their concentration, the forms of
proteins present, and other factors that affect the product's bioactivity
(biological action). Perhaps the most important criterion of all is the extent of
the product's protein denaturation. What cannot be ignored is the issue of fat
soluble and water soluble environmental toxins passing into the milk. The
whey content of truly fresh milk contains such potent glutathione building
blocks as lactoferrin, beta-lactabumin and serum albumin-all easily denatured
by heat or mechanical agitation. To maintain the bioactivity of glutathione
precursors whey proteins must be extracted from milk with special means, and
careful monitoring is essential. Bioactive whey proteins contin high levels of
non-dentured protein and this assures their glutathione promoting activity.
Immunocal- a why protein made under pharmacological conditions to maximize
the protein's bioactivity.
Glutathione helps us fight cancer in at least three ways: Firstly and most
importantly, it can prevent cancers from developing in the first place.
Secondly, glutathione tends to combat cancers already established in the body.
Lastly, it can alleviate many of the consequences of cancer including severe
weight loss, and the side effects f chemo-therapy and radiotherapy. By using
the proper precursors or building blocks, glutathione levels can be selectively
raised in normal tissues and depleted in cancer cells, thereby making the
cancer cell more susceptible to damage and removal by the immune system.
By facilitating the growth and function of white blood cells, which are often
heavily damaged by the "friendly fire" of anticancer treatments, it raises the
immune system's capacity to fight the cancer directly.
Glutathione modualtion represent a novel approach in treatment and
prevention of cancer.
Antioxidants are well documented and known to psses vital roles in health
maintenance and disease prevention. Glutathione is your cell's own major
antioxidant. Maintaining elevated glutathione levels aids the body's natural
antioxidant function.
Glutathione detoxifies a variety of pollutants, carcinogens and poisons,
including many found in fuel exhaust and cigarette smoke. It also retards
damage from radiation exposure to te eroding ozone layer.
Glutathione protects the body from inflammation of gastritis, and stomach
ulcers, pancreatitis and inflammatory bowel disease including ulcerative colitis
and Chrohn's disease.
Also has a role in fetal and placental development is crucial. It also acts in the
placenta to detoxify pollutants before they can reach the developing child.
many complications o pregnancy have been linked with poor glutathione levels.