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The Healing Promise of Glutathione
In the past twenty years, anti-aging medicine has seen huge strides in its ability to add quantity and quality of life. Add to that the increasing amount of nutritional information and a greater acceptance of natural medicine modalities and you have the potential for dramatically retarding aging. The single most important factor in this understanding and slowing down of aging, is in the area of free radicals. Free radicals are reactive molecules found in the body. They are produced by cells every time food is metabolized, by the immune system to fight infection, and by various types of toxins that one can be exposed to in day to day life. Free radicals are unstable and their goal is to become stable by acquiring an electron. This results in a deleterious chain reaction. As one free radical becomes stable, another free radical is formed. This can be a real problem and eventually lead to accelerated aging and disease when the electrons grabbed, to stabilize free radicals come from cell membranes, mitochondria, DNA, and so on. Now, not all free radicals are bad, when controlled,they are vital to our existence. After all, our white blood cells produce free radicals in order to kill foreign organisms that invade our bodies. It is when free radicals become out of control that theylead to many different conditions that lower the quality of life: atherosclerosis, low immunity, cancer, autoimmune diseases, dementia, etc. Substances called antioxidants, neutralize free radicals by donating their own electrons. Antioxidants normally come from our diet, but if our diet does not provide the body with specific vitamins, minerals and phytonutrients we will have difficulty quenching free radicals and we will experience oxidative stress. In other words, free radicals start outnumbering the antioxidants and start doing damage to the body. Just as oxidation causes an apple to turn brown when exposed to air and metal to rust, oxidation causes the body to age. And poor dietary choices aren't the only contributing factors of oxidative stress. The following is a list of factors that impact levels of free radicals and the ability to deactivate their destructiveness:
There are many antioxidants such as vitamins A, C, and E, minerals like selenium and zinc, but the most powerful antioxidant of all is glutathione. An endogenous or intracellular antioxidant, it is found in every cell of the body. Other antioxidants are exogenous, meaning they come from outside sources, ie the food we eat. Glutathione, however, is manufactured within the cell using specific building blocks or precursors from food. The reason the glutathion is the key cellular antioxidant is that when other antioxidants become imbalanced after the loss of one of their electrons, glutathione neutralizes the danger and recharges the antioxidants by donating an electron. These spent antioxidants can once again go about their job protecting the body. 
This is no normal antioxidant. It multi-tasks to keep your body healthy and happy. While it's dealing with cleaning up other antioxidants,it's also working other jobs. It is the best preventative against pathogens. A body well-stocked with intracellular glutathione produces more white blood cells. As you know, white blood cells are the immune system's most important line of defense. The white blood cells can destroy pathogenic microbes like bacteria and viruses. But the immune system can also become over-reactive and cause harm tothe body. This reaction is called autoimmunity and is caused by the immune system mistakenly identifying tissues of the body as intruders and then aggressively and dangerously attacking those tissues. Today, autoimmune diseases are rampant. Some of these conditions include :
One of glutathione's most marvelous abilities is to detoxify at a cellular level. In today's world, with the constant bombardment of pollutants like heavy metals, chemicals from food, air and water, second hand smoke, industrial effluent, biological contaminants like molds and mildews, and radiation, can be overwhelming to the body. Enter, glutathione! The liver and kidneys are two of the body's most important detoxification organs, filtering out metabolic wastes and breaking down toxins. Glutathione is found in the highest concentrations in these two organs. Researchers at the Emory School of Medicine in Atlanta report that, "Glutathione has multiple functions in detoxification and its depletion has been associated with an increased risk of chemical toxicity." The research on its detoxifying benefits don't stop there. Researchers in Switzerland and Spain have shown that humans exposed to ionizing radiation have a greater risk of developing cancer, if their glutathione levels are depleted. While genetic researchers also found that enhanced glutathione levels were shown to reduce the damaging effects of sunburn and other diseases. Heavy metals are a real issue in our environment, especially mercury. Its damaging effects range from increasing risks of developing cancers, autoimmune diseases and dementia to alterations in fetal development. Children with autism have been found to have a reduced ability to detoxify heavy metals allowing these toxins to pass the blood/brain barrier and alter brain development. Glutathione was found to encourage the detoxifying of mercury from the body and is now being used by medical practitioners to remove mercury and other heavy metals from the body. Though the therapeutic benefits of glutathione are dramatic, we cannot get it from food. And unfortunately, as we age, our cellular levels decrease. Some nutrient companies suggest consuming the precursors to glutathione, the nutrients the body needs to manufacture it, but even if we ingest adequate amounts of these nutrients, the body produces only small amounts of useable glutathione. Dr. Robert Keller, an award winning physician from the United States, worked on this problem for many years. He knew that glutathione offered people amazing anti-aging and therapeutic potential. But, he also knew that there had to be a better way to deliver it to the cells. In 2006 he made a discovery that would change anti-aging medicine forever. He created a natural glutathione accelerator that gets glutathione to the cells in amounts necessaryfor dramatic therapeutic benefits.His method and formula were patented and put in to production in 2008. Since then thousands of individuals have experienced the amazing healing properties of glutathione. (Check out this video!)
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