Learn About Glutathione, and How This Small Molecule Can Fight Degenerative Disease
What is Glutathione? Most people have never heard the term.
Glutathione is a natural antioxidant that is produced by all the living cells in our body, and must be present in each cell of our body for that cell to survive.
It is a combination of three building blocks of protein, or "amino acids" -- cysteine, glycine and glutamine--and is called the "master antioxidant" because without glutathione, none of the other antioxidants can function properly.
Studies have shown that when glutathione levels are low, antioxidants like vitamin C and E will not be effective and efficient, and glutathione is absolutely crucial for the proper function of all of the other antioxidants.
When glutathione levels fall too low in our bodies, we die.
But here is the dilemma: Studies have also shown that when glutathione pills and supplements are taken, they are digested and broken down in the stomach but never reach the blood stream and the major organs (like the heart, lungs, and brain) and other tissues of our bodies that desperately need glutathione in order to function in optimal health.
Fifteen years ago there was only one way to increase glutathione effectively, and that was to take glutathione by intravenous injection (through a needle placed in the vein).
This was a painful, inconvenient, and expensive option.
Another less effective way to increase glutathione was to take a drug like n-Acetyl cystine (NAC), but this product has side effects often worse that the very conditions for which glutathione supplementation and augmentation is being considered.
In otherwords, sometimes the treatment was worse than the disease! To date, there have been over 100,000 published articles on glutathione in the medical literature.
Many of these studies show that glutathione helps protect us against daily threats to our health as we are bombarded with viruses, bacteria, parasites, fungi, the toxins produced from drug breakdown products, environmental pollutants, carcinogens, radiation damage, and even precancerous cells.
Experimental studies have shown that low glutathione levels lead to poor liver and kidney function, and glutathione levels are depleted as our body continuously tries to eliminate and neutralize toxins we encounter on a daily basis (including cigarette smoke, automobile exhaust and heavy metals).
Every day our bodies are exposed to stress, pollution, radiation, infection, drugs, poor diet, aging, injury and fatigue.
All these factors contribute to glutathione depletion, which in turn leads to cellular aging, disease and early death.
Lately many scientists have concluded that glutathione deficiency is found in nearly all very ill patients.
These include people with heart disease, cancer, chronic infections, chronic fatigue syndrome, alzheimer's disease, autoimmune disease, parkinson's disease, kidney problems, diabetes, autism, arthritis, asthma, liver disease, and most of the other degenerative diseases.
Glutathione acts like a molecular magnet.
Toxins stick onto glutathione, are neutralized, travel to the liver, and are carried into the bile and the stool -- and out of your body.
And thus, in the process of detoxifying your body, your glutathione level becomes depleted and you can no longer protect yourself against free radicals, infections, chronic illness, or cancer without replenishing this vital molecule.
Diet supplies most of the building blocks for our cells to manufacture glutathione (including vitamin C and selenium), but the critical limiting factor, cysteine, is not easily supplied by our diets because it is destroyed by the heat of cooking.
Unless we avoid cooked foods and eat lots of raw foods, this critical component to produce glutathione is limited.
Additionally, as we age, our bodies become less and less efficient at producing glutathione from the foods we eat.
Glutathione is critical to your body to help you stay healthy, and keep your immune system on full alert and fully armed.
Without it, your cells would disintegrate from unrestrained oxidation, and your liver would cease functioning from the accumulation of toxins.
Doctors can predict the week of death of patients with critically low levels of glutathione (such as occurs in AIDS or following massive radiation or toxin exposures).
Then the question remains.
How can you increase or optimize your Glutathione level in times of environmental stressors? Physicians regularly use drugs (intravenous glutathione and NAC) to elevate glutathione levels in critical illnesses like acetaminophen overdose, and severe liver failure.
Glutathione precursors occur naturally in many foods, and people who eat a verity of fresh fruits and vegetables (broccoli, asparagus, cabbage, cauliflower, garlic, and onions) will benefit to some degree.
Raw cruciferous veggies and raw organic milk are a decent source of glutathione precursors, but you would have to eat an enormous amount of raw broccoli and consume hundreds of gallons of raw milk each month to fully optimize your glutathione levels.
Another good source of glutathione precursors would be meat, but again, the meat would need to be raw to be a competent source of cysteine.
Another usable form of cysteine can be found in eggs, but the eggs must be raw, otherwise the proteins that carry the cysteine are changed by heat, and lose their efficiency as a "cysteine delivery vehicle".
Consuming raw eggs and raw meats is not recommended and carries its own infection-related hazards.
Eating glutathione supplements or foods rich in glutathione will not do the trick.
Most of it will end up being broken down in your digestive tract, and eliminated.
No detectable increases in glutathione were seen in the blood in one published oral glutathione clinical trial, even after subjects consumed massive doses of oral glutathione.
For these reasons (and until 15 years ago) it has been very difficult to impossible to effectively raise glutathione in your body.
But research under the direction of Gustavo Bounous, MD, and a team of researchers from the Faculty of Medicine at McGill University (Canada), led to the surprising discovery that a specific undenatured whey protein concentrate that helped to sustain and raise your body's concentration of glutathione (GSH) which was named "Immunocal".
Immunocal is sourced from raw, non-pasteurized and non-industrially produced milk that contains no pesticides, hormones, or antibiotics.
Immunocal is purified with a patented process and meets or exceeds rigorous FDA milk-product purity standards.
Immunocal has had all the fat and lactose removed, so folks who are limited their fat intake, or who are severely lactose intolerant can take this product with out concern.
Immunocal contains the precursors or building blocks for your body to make glutathione on its own, and is the only way to raise your body's glutathione levels efficiently on a daily basis.
The observed effects of Immunocal, which have been discovered at McGill University, have been validated by numerous independent research centers worldwide notably in Germany, Japan, Australia, France, United States and in Nova Scotia (Canada).
Dr.
Bounous, the researcher who discovered and patented Immunocal, was approached by another researcher, Dr.
Baruchel, recently of the Pasteur Institute in Paris, where he and Dr.
Luc Montagnier, M.
D.
, the winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Medicine, were credited with the discovery of the virus responsible for AIDS a few years earlier.
Dr.
Montagnier said of the AIDS virus: "We can be exposed to HIV [Human Immunodeficiency Virus, the AIDS virus] many times without being clinically infected.
Our immune system will get rid of the virus in a few weeks if you have a good immune system.
" Dr.
Montagnier was the editor of an entire book chapter on Immunocal and based his scientific conclusions for his work on HIV, AIDS and cancer on the efficacy of Immunotec's flagship product, Immunocal®.
Immunocal has been listed for 11 years in the prestigious (2000-2011) prescription drug editions of the U.
S.
Physicians' Desk Reference (PDR), Pharmaceutical Red Book, and Canada's Compendium of Pharmaceuticals and Specialties (CPS).
These are Prescription Drug Compendiums, even though it is NOT a drug.
In the early 1980's at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, Dr.
Gustavo Bounous, M.
D.
, noticed that one group of his lab animals was living, on average, 35% longer to 50% longer than the others.
His work in the field of health and nutrition had been comparing the food value of various proteins but this observation redirected his entire course of investigation.
He didn't know how it happened or why it happened but that it did happen over and over again.
The animals being given one specific whey protein concentrate (Immunocal) were outliving all others.
Who can benefit from Immunocal? Since glutathione is the master of all the antioxidants and we are continuously exposed to polluted air, water, cigarette smoke, pesticide in fruits and vegetables, automobile exhaust, and heavy metals, then anybody can benefit.
From babies to the elderly, healthy to infirm, and anyone who wants to defend against the growing number of diverse biological and chemical hazards facing our society today, Immunocal is the obvious answer.
Glutathione is a natural antioxidant that is produced by all the living cells in our body, and must be present in each cell of our body for that cell to survive.
It is a combination of three building blocks of protein, or "amino acids" -- cysteine, glycine and glutamine--and is called the "master antioxidant" because without glutathione, none of the other antioxidants can function properly.
Studies have shown that when glutathione levels are low, antioxidants like vitamin C and E will not be effective and efficient, and glutathione is absolutely crucial for the proper function of all of the other antioxidants.
When glutathione levels fall too low in our bodies, we die.
But here is the dilemma: Studies have also shown that when glutathione pills and supplements are taken, they are digested and broken down in the stomach but never reach the blood stream and the major organs (like the heart, lungs, and brain) and other tissues of our bodies that desperately need glutathione in order to function in optimal health.
Fifteen years ago there was only one way to increase glutathione effectively, and that was to take glutathione by intravenous injection (through a needle placed in the vein).
This was a painful, inconvenient, and expensive option.
Another less effective way to increase glutathione was to take a drug like n-Acetyl cystine (NAC), but this product has side effects often worse that the very conditions for which glutathione supplementation and augmentation is being considered.
In otherwords, sometimes the treatment was worse than the disease! To date, there have been over 100,000 published articles on glutathione in the medical literature.
Many of these studies show that glutathione helps protect us against daily threats to our health as we are bombarded with viruses, bacteria, parasites, fungi, the toxins produced from drug breakdown products, environmental pollutants, carcinogens, radiation damage, and even precancerous cells.
Experimental studies have shown that low glutathione levels lead to poor liver and kidney function, and glutathione levels are depleted as our body continuously tries to eliminate and neutralize toxins we encounter on a daily basis (including cigarette smoke, automobile exhaust and heavy metals).
Every day our bodies are exposed to stress, pollution, radiation, infection, drugs, poor diet, aging, injury and fatigue.
All these factors contribute to glutathione depletion, which in turn leads to cellular aging, disease and early death.
Lately many scientists have concluded that glutathione deficiency is found in nearly all very ill patients.
These include people with heart disease, cancer, chronic infections, chronic fatigue syndrome, alzheimer's disease, autoimmune disease, parkinson's disease, kidney problems, diabetes, autism, arthritis, asthma, liver disease, and most of the other degenerative diseases.
Glutathione acts like a molecular magnet.
Toxins stick onto glutathione, are neutralized, travel to the liver, and are carried into the bile and the stool -- and out of your body.
And thus, in the process of detoxifying your body, your glutathione level becomes depleted and you can no longer protect yourself against free radicals, infections, chronic illness, or cancer without replenishing this vital molecule.
Diet supplies most of the building blocks for our cells to manufacture glutathione (including vitamin C and selenium), but the critical limiting factor, cysteine, is not easily supplied by our diets because it is destroyed by the heat of cooking.
Unless we avoid cooked foods and eat lots of raw foods, this critical component to produce glutathione is limited.
Additionally, as we age, our bodies become less and less efficient at producing glutathione from the foods we eat.
Glutathione is critical to your body to help you stay healthy, and keep your immune system on full alert and fully armed.
Without it, your cells would disintegrate from unrestrained oxidation, and your liver would cease functioning from the accumulation of toxins.
Doctors can predict the week of death of patients with critically low levels of glutathione (such as occurs in AIDS or following massive radiation or toxin exposures).
Then the question remains.
How can you increase or optimize your Glutathione level in times of environmental stressors? Physicians regularly use drugs (intravenous glutathione and NAC) to elevate glutathione levels in critical illnesses like acetaminophen overdose, and severe liver failure.
Glutathione precursors occur naturally in many foods, and people who eat a verity of fresh fruits and vegetables (broccoli, asparagus, cabbage, cauliflower, garlic, and onions) will benefit to some degree.
Raw cruciferous veggies and raw organic milk are a decent source of glutathione precursors, but you would have to eat an enormous amount of raw broccoli and consume hundreds of gallons of raw milk each month to fully optimize your glutathione levels.
Another good source of glutathione precursors would be meat, but again, the meat would need to be raw to be a competent source of cysteine.
Another usable form of cysteine can be found in eggs, but the eggs must be raw, otherwise the proteins that carry the cysteine are changed by heat, and lose their efficiency as a "cysteine delivery vehicle".
Consuming raw eggs and raw meats is not recommended and carries its own infection-related hazards.
Eating glutathione supplements or foods rich in glutathione will not do the trick.
Most of it will end up being broken down in your digestive tract, and eliminated.
No detectable increases in glutathione were seen in the blood in one published oral glutathione clinical trial, even after subjects consumed massive doses of oral glutathione.
For these reasons (and until 15 years ago) it has been very difficult to impossible to effectively raise glutathione in your body.
But research under the direction of Gustavo Bounous, MD, and a team of researchers from the Faculty of Medicine at McGill University (Canada), led to the surprising discovery that a specific undenatured whey protein concentrate that helped to sustain and raise your body's concentration of glutathione (GSH) which was named "Immunocal".
Immunocal is sourced from raw, non-pasteurized and non-industrially produced milk that contains no pesticides, hormones, or antibiotics.
Immunocal is purified with a patented process and meets or exceeds rigorous FDA milk-product purity standards.
Immunocal has had all the fat and lactose removed, so folks who are limited their fat intake, or who are severely lactose intolerant can take this product with out concern.
Immunocal contains the precursors or building blocks for your body to make glutathione on its own, and is the only way to raise your body's glutathione levels efficiently on a daily basis.
The observed effects of Immunocal, which have been discovered at McGill University, have been validated by numerous independent research centers worldwide notably in Germany, Japan, Australia, France, United States and in Nova Scotia (Canada).
Dr.
Bounous, the researcher who discovered and patented Immunocal, was approached by another researcher, Dr.
Baruchel, recently of the Pasteur Institute in Paris, where he and Dr.
Luc Montagnier, M.
D.
, the winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Medicine, were credited with the discovery of the virus responsible for AIDS a few years earlier.
Dr.
Montagnier said of the AIDS virus: "We can be exposed to HIV [Human Immunodeficiency Virus, the AIDS virus] many times without being clinically infected.
Our immune system will get rid of the virus in a few weeks if you have a good immune system.
" Dr.
Montagnier was the editor of an entire book chapter on Immunocal and based his scientific conclusions for his work on HIV, AIDS and cancer on the efficacy of Immunotec's flagship product, Immunocal®.
Immunocal has been listed for 11 years in the prestigious (2000-2011) prescription drug editions of the U.
S.
Physicians' Desk Reference (PDR), Pharmaceutical Red Book, and Canada's Compendium of Pharmaceuticals and Specialties (CPS).
These are Prescription Drug Compendiums, even though it is NOT a drug.
In the early 1980's at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, Dr.
Gustavo Bounous, M.
D.
, noticed that one group of his lab animals was living, on average, 35% longer to 50% longer than the others.
His work in the field of health and nutrition had been comparing the food value of various proteins but this observation redirected his entire course of investigation.
He didn't know how it happened or why it happened but that it did happen over and over again.
The animals being given one specific whey protein concentrate (Immunocal) were outliving all others.
Who can benefit from Immunocal? Since glutathione is the master of all the antioxidants and we are continuously exposed to polluted air, water, cigarette smoke, pesticide in fruits and vegetables, automobile exhaust, and heavy metals, then anybody can benefit.
From babies to the elderly, healthy to infirm, and anyone who wants to defend against the growing number of diverse biological and chemical hazards facing our society today, Immunocal is the obvious answer.