Super Anti-oxidant

Glutathione is often called the “master antioxidant” for many reasons. Glutathione is the most important antioxidant for preventing disease and promoting optimal health. Glutathione is a powerhouse and is a combination of three key amino acids, l-cysteine, l-glutamic acid and glycine that are essential for optimate cellular health.

Free Radiacal and Oxidative Stress

Glutathione is the front-line defense against free radicals and oxidative stress. Free radicals are potentially harmful molecules in the body that are the by-product of the cellular metabolism, a natural occurring biochemical process. Free radicals are the result of oxidative stress. Oxidative stress occurs naturally after our body uses glucose for fuel, or as a byproduct of the stress response. This stress can happen when the immune system has been fighting viruses and bacteria in response to the neutralization of toxins in the body.

Free radicals are unstable, meaning they have unpaired electrons and seek out other electrons to pair with. Glutathione is the master leader of the body’s antioxidant defense system. Intracellular glutathione is important because it is the main antioxidant for mitochondria, the tiny mechanisms inside each cell that convert nutrients into energy.

Free radicals target the mitochondria which is the energy generator meaning the powerhouse in each cell. If we damage our mitochondria, we have no energy to generate. These free radical and oxidative stress can cause damage and the mitochondria in the process rendering them not being able to function and provide the needed cellular energy for the body to function optimally. In addition, oxidative stress causes cellular stress and inflammation at the cellular level and degeneration of cellular tissue.

Glutathione’s powerful powerhouse effects on free radicals are what have made it such an important part of preventing and reversing metabolic imbalances in the body. Glutathione is the body’s master antioxidant. When there is naturally enough glutathione in the cells, it offers itself up to free radicals, so they don’t try to attach to other cells and cause damage. If there isn’t enough glutathione in the cells, free radicals can run rampant and cause chaos at the cellular level.

A healthy level of Glutathione is crucial because the degenerative process of autoimmune disease destroys the mitochondria in affected cells, such as thyroid tissue in Hashimoto’s. It helps to reduce cellular degeneration caused by aging, and oxidative stress. It is an excellent antiaging treatment to remove oxidative stress. It has been shown to reduce chronic inflammation and support a healthy immune system. Glutathione has been shown to help with many GI issues such as IBS and leaky gut. Glutathione is the powerhouse that reduces oxidative stress, a precursor to diabetes, cancer, arthritis, parkinsons disease, and alzheimers disease.

Glutathione’s Powerful Effects on The Immune System

The body’s immune system is the most magnificent integral system designed to fend off disease and function effortlessly. In a perfect world free of toxins, with clean air, chemical-free foods, and water, it does function effortlessly. However, we are exposed to toxins daily and our bodies need help to remove these toxins. Every day our bodies work hard to cope with the effects of environmental toxins, food intolerances, inflammatory diets with high sugar content and low in nutrients, sleep deprivation, and chronic stress. To minimize the damage, it’s important to support healthy levels of glutathione.

We are designed to maintain sufficient levels of glutathione from dietary sources, but when our overly hectic lifestyles and exposure to toxins, bad diets, and chronic stress overwhelm our system, our glutathione levels become depleted. This in turn can lead to inflammation which can lead to many chronic and autoimmune diseases.

For those that are dealing with autoimmunity and leaky gut, it’s crucial to support healthy levels of glutathione. Glutathione protects cells against inflammation, supports immunity, and supports regeneration of the blood-brain barrier and the gut lining.

Glutathione is Essential for Gut and Immune Health

When the lining of the small intestine becomes over-permeable, toxins, undigested food molecules, and other pathogens can pass into the sterile environment of the bloodstream. This triggers systemic (system-wide) inflammation, increasing the risk for food sensitivities, inflammation, chronic pain, brain degeneration (brain fog), and autoimmune disease.

Low glutathione levels make a person more prone to developing leaky gut and related GI issues and studies show glutathione plays an important role in reducing intestinal inflammation and gut barrier integrity.

The gut isn’t the only barrier that can become permeable, or leaky. People also can develop a leaky blood-brain barrier or leaky respiratory tract if the glutathione system is depleted. A health blood-brain barrier is important for brain functions due the connection along the gut-brain axis.

While an anti-inflammatory diet and leaky gut protocol are vital, it’s important to remember to support glutathione levels and glutathione recycling.

Benefits of Glutathione

Intracellular glutathione is important because it is the main antioxidant for mitochondria, the tiny mechanisms inside each cell that convert nutrients into energy.

As we age our bodies glutathione levels start to decline. Antioxidants like L-Glutathione are nature’s antidote to oxidative stress, the accumulation of free radicals that underlies a vast number of diseases and the functional impairments associated with aging. Many things can contribute to low levels of Glutathione such as poor lifestyle habits, like diet or smoking, and environmental exposures such as pollution and toxins. All these can cause Glutathione levels to decline at the cellular level. Glutathione helps eliminate toxins from the cells, it helps the liver to detoxify and restores general health and well-being in the body.

It has been studied the low levels of Glutathione have been linked to many diseases such as Parkinsons Disease, Alzheimer’s, some cancers, and heart disease.

Benefits of Glutathione and Skin

Glutathione has many benefits for your skin, including:

· Anti-aging Glutathione can help prevent or reverse wrinkles, age spots, and dark circles. It can also help with skin elasticity by stimulating the production of collagen and elastin. Glutathione IV infusions leaves your skin glowing and helps to decrease inflammation and hyperpigmentation.

· Acne reduction: Glutathione can help prevent or reverse acne.

· Skin brightening Glutathione can reduce melanin production, which can help with hyperpigmentation and dark spots.

· Detoxification: Glutathione helps remove oxidative chemicals from your cells.

· Anti-inflammatory: Glutathione can help reduce inflammation, which can cause hyperpigmentation and chronic acne.

Glutathione (IV) Therapy

Be nourished from the inside out. Give your body the most essential antioxidant it needs for good health, to feel good and perform optimally.

Intravenous (IV) therapy is a highly effective method of delivering a safe and healthy dose of natural essential amino acids and vitamins and minerals directly into your circulatory system. IV Glutathione is more effective than oral form due to low bioavailability. IV therapy bypasses the digestive tract for 100% cellular absorption. IV therapy can safely deliver high doses not tolerated orally. IV therapy also helps to prevent illness, increase energy, and slow the effects of aging.

Radiant Integrative Health & Wellness offers Glutathione IV therapy that will help enhance the immune system, help your skin glow and allow the body to heal naturally from the inside out. The services we provide are designed to address all areas related to your chronic symptoms and or disease.