Glutathione

Book Synopsis: Glutathione: the Miracle Molecule You Can't Live Without

This miracle molecule is required for you to stay healthy and ward off disease – yet for all it’s incredible power, chances are you may never have heard of it. It's the key to preventing aging, cancer, heart disease, dementia and more, and a necessary component to treating everything from autism to Alzheimer's disease. Unbelievably, there are more than 90,000 medical articles written about it -- but your physician probably doesn't know anything about it - let alone how to use it. What is it? Variously referred to as the master antioxidant, the primary detoxifier and leading booster of the immune system: it is the tri-peptide GLUTATHIONE (pronounced "gloo-ta-thion”)

From before birth every cell in your body produces its own glutathione. Aging, poor diet, pollution, toxins, medications, stress, trauma, infections and radiation all deplete your natural glutathione. Without glutathione you are vulnerable to widespread cell damage from oxidative stress, free radicals, infections and cancer. Without glutathione your liver gets overtaxed with toxins making it unable to fulfill one of its primary roles – recycling plant and garbage collector for your body.

What is Glutathione?

Glutathione is a very simple 3- part molecule that is naturally produced from non-essential amino acids found in most cells in your body. It is a combination of three building blocks of protein or amino acids -- cysteine, glycine and glutamine.

The secret to glutathione’s effectiveness as an anti-oxidant is the sulfur (SH) chemical group it contains. Sulfur is an attractive element which easily combines with electron or proton deficient compounds, including free radicals and toxins like mercury and other heavy metals such as chromium, selenium or strontium. Glutathione easily neutralizes free radicals & combines with toxins to diminish the damage these agents can cause.