Glutathione

What's Glutathione?

Glutathione as an active tripeptide is comprised of three amino acids: glutamic acid (Glu), cysteine (Cys), and glycine (Gly).
Glutathione is soluble in water, dilute alcohol, and dimethylformamide, and is insoluble in ethanol. The solid state of glutathione is relatively stable, and its aqueous solution is easily oxidized in the air.

Food Sources of Glutathione

You could find it easily in animal liver, blood, yeast and wheat germ, and a small number of plant tissues such as various vegetables.

Forms of Glutathione

L-Glutathione exists in reduced (GSH) and oxidized (GSSG; glutathione disulfide) forms in cells and tissues, and the concentration of glutathione range from 0.5 to 10mM in animal cells.

 
Why do we need to replenish Glutathione?

Glutathione inhibits the synthesis of human hepatocytes. When people are young, they can maintain regular demand, but as they grow older, integration capacity begins to decline, and supply capacity begins to appear insufficient. Also, excessive drinking, smoking, prolonged exposure to high concentrations of pollution, exposure to toxic substances, long-term or large-scale use of drugs, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, etc., can also lead to increased glutathione consumption rate in vivo
than glutathione-synthesis in vivo. Due to the reduction of endogenous GSH under pathological conditions, it is necessary to supplement exogenous GSH in time. The supplementation of exogenous GSH can prevent, alleviate and prevent damage of tissue cells and change pathophysiological processes.
In recent years, a large number of clinical, preliminary experimental data show that GSH also has anti-inflammatory, anti-thrombosis, anti-epilepsy, vascular protection, and other effects. Therefore, GSH should have broader application prospects for the treatment of severe and severe diseases. 

Function

1. Radiation sickness and radiation safety: radiation, radioactive substances or because of leukopenia caused by anticancer drugs and other symptoms can play a protective effect. 
2.To protect the liver, detoxification, inactivation of hormones, and to promote bile acid metabolism and help absorb fat and fat-soluble vitamins digestive tract. 
3.Anti-allergy, or inflammation caused by hypoxemia in patients with systemic or local, can reduce cell damage and promote repair. 
4.To improve the course of certain diseases and symptoms as adjuvant drugs. Such as: hepatitis, hemolytic disease, and keratitis, cataract and retinal diseases, such as eye disease and improve vision. 
5.Easy to speed up the metabolism of acids in the excretion of free radicals, which play a beauty skin care, anti-aging effect. 

Application

1.Beauty and personal care:
Glutathione can eliminate wrinkles, increase skin elasticity, shrink pores, reduce pigment, the body has an excellent whitening effect.

2. Food & Beverage:
1) Added to the surface products, can play a role in the reduction. Not only to make bread to reduce the time to the original one-half or one-third of a substantial improvement in working conditions, and play a strengthening role in food nutrition and other functions.
2) Added to the yogurt and infant food, the equivalent of vitamin C, can play a role in stabilizing agent.
3) Mix it into the fish cake, can prevent the color deepens.
4) Added to meat and cheese and other foods, with enhanced flavor effect.

3. Health medicine:
1) Radiation sickness and radiation safety: radiation, radioactive substances or anticancer drugs caused by leukopenia and other symptoms can play a protective effect.
2) To protect the liver, detoxification, hormone inactivation, promote bile acid metabolism, help absorb fat-soluble vitamins in the digestive tract.
3) Anti-allergy, or systemic or local patients with hypoxemia caused by inflammation, can reduce cell damage and promote repair.
4) To improve certain diseases and symptoms as a secondary drug process. Such as: hepatitis, hemolytic disease, keratitis, cataracts and retinal diseases, such as eye diseases, improve vision.
5) Easy to accelerate acid metabolism, excretion of free radicals, play skin care, anti-aging effect.