When I got sick 11 years ago, I had both diabetes Type II, Fatty liver and undefined autoimmune disease that has now been determined to be Fibromyalgia. After doing months of research on what have gone wrong with my body and after following several Functional practitioners, I began taking a quality Glutathione on my own. I did the research to realize that it was a supplement that would help me heal and return to balance.

By the time I found my Functional MD, 5 years down my road to wellness, I read that taking glutathione as a supplement was not terribly effective. My stomach acid was destroying the glutathione before it got to my cells.

As a result, I started going to my FMD’s office weekly for what was called a Meyer’s Cocktail, which included glutathione, vitamin C, vitamin E, B vitamins etc. I felt better after getting this “cocktail” intravenously.

About a year ago, I discovered that intravenously worked really well with for the other needed essential nutrients, but that the glutathione only lasted a couple of hours in my system.

This is information that came this morning from the Food Revolution Network/ Ocean Robbins

We’ve known about the vitamin antioxidants for a long time: vitamin C, vitamin E, and beta-carotene leap to mind. Recently, other phytonutrients such as lycopene and resveratrol have been having their day in the sun. But there’s one antioxidant that may be the most important of all, and it hasn’t really received the amount of attention justified by its impressive benefits.

First discovered in 1888 by J. de Rey-Paihade, a French doctor, glutathione was found in high concentrations in most of the cells of the human body, especially in the liver. These days, many health influencers talk about its benefits for a number of conditions, and also tout its potential to slow the aging process.

Glutathione is one of the most potent antioxidants in the body. It binds to fat-soluble toxins — the electron thieves that we just met — as well as heavy metals that make their way into the body. As such, it supports the liver and kidneys as they work to detoxify harmful compounds, both organic and inorganic. Glutathione also helps make proteins in the body and regulates the function of the immune system.
Your body naturally produces glutathione in your cells. The largest producer is the liver, which creates it from three amino acids: cysteine, glutamate, and glycine. That’s why glutathione is characterized as a tripeptide (“three peptides”).
Since glutathione serves to fight the free radicals that cause oxidative damage, we want our bodies to increase the concentration of glutathione in cells in response to oxidation. And one of the safest and most effective ways to raise resting levels of glutathione appears to be exercise. Just as lifting weights can grow your muscles and cardio can strengthen your heart, temporarily raising free radical levels through physical activity creates adaptations that increase glutathione activity throughout the body.
But what exactly is glutathione? What claims for its benefits are valid, and what’s currently just speculation or hype? How do you make sure you have enough in your body? And can you make it all yourself, do you need to get it from food, or do you need to supplement?

Glutathione is one of the most important antioxidants in your body.

Due to its key roles in detoxification, fighting free radicals, and making essential proteins, glutathione is indispensable for health. Low levels of glutathione are associated with a number of diseases and conditions. In some cases, clinical trials have revealed a causal relationship (that is, raising glutathione levels makes things better). And in others, it’s still unclear if low glutathione is a cause of a symptom, or if the condition itself has suppressed glutathione synthesis.

Since the liver is ground zero for glutathione production, it makes sense that glutathione levels are lower in people with a variety of liver disorders and diseases.
Medical research has found that glutathione supplementation can help mitigate the effects of liver disease. A small 2017 clinical trial found that people with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) had their liver function improve when given supplemental glutathione. This is good news, as NAFLD is associated with the development of insulin resistance (a root cause of type 2 diabetes), obesity, and high blood pressure.

Glutathione also appears to restore some liver function in those with alcoholic liver disease.
It helps you to detoxify. It fights cancer-causing free radicals. And it helps your body to make essential proteins.

Glutathione and the Immune System
When your glutathione stores are low, your body is less able to fight off viral infections. And glutathione also participates in the development of trained immunity, whereby your immune system gets better at defeating pathogens through exposure. A 2021 study showed that high concentrations of glutathione in plasma cells were associated with some immune cells’ ability to “remember” past infections and deal with new ones more effectively.
One way glutathione supports the immune system is by inducing a phenomenon called macrophage polarization, in which macrophages (the immune cells that gobble up pathogens; their name is Greek for “big eaters”) can adjust their programming based on environmental signals. A 2022 microbiology paper argued that glutathione deficiency could even be a risk factor in life-threatening cases of COVID-19.

Glutathione and the Brain
One of glutathione’s impressive list of feats is its ability to regulate brain metabolism. It turns out that when glutathione function is impaired, the brain loses more neurons — a process that’s associated with cognitive decline, Alzheimer’s, and increased risk of depression and anxiety. It’s also clear that insufficient glutathione may contribute to Parkinson’s disease.
One of the challenges in glutathione research is knowing how to measure it accurately. Researchers are still debating the best way to determine brain concentrations of glutathione. Doing so is important because there’s evidence that too little and too much glutathione may contribute to mood disorders like depression and schizophrenia.

 

 

Glutathione and Cancer
As one of the “master conductors” of cellular behavior, glutathione can tell cells to do a bunch of different things, including divide, grow, protect themselves, and self-destruct. All these processes are involved in cancer. And glutathione appears to be a double-edged sword in this case. It can tell damaged cells to die, either through apoptosis (programmed cell death) or a recently discovered type of cell death called ferroptosis, which relies on iron and reactive oxygen species (ROS) to basically blow up a cell’s mitochondria from the inside.
But glutathione can also become a cheerleader for cancer; elevated levels in tumor cells can trigger the progression of tumors and increase resistance to anticancer drugs. It appears to be a matter of timing: Glutathione removes and detoxifies carcinogens, which prevents the initiation of cancer, but it also promotes the growth and metastasis of already-formed tumors.

Glutathione and Type 2 Diabetes
There’s definitely a link between glutathione deficiency and the presence of type 2 diabetes. But it’s not entirely clear yet which one causes the other (or whether both are caused by an as-yet-unknown initial factor).
A 2018 study of just 24 people (16 with type 2 diabetes and 8 matched controls who did not have the disease) found that the people with type 2 diabetes had lower glutathione concentrations, suggesting that something about the disease might cause less tripeptide production. Additionally, it appears that there’s something about excess blood sugar that requires more glutathione, leaving less for other critical functions.
For someone with type 2 diabetes, the question of causality may be less important than finding out if glutathione supplementation can improve symptoms and mitigate progression.
A 2021 controlled trial out of Denmark sought to answer that question, studying the effects of three weeks of oral glutathione supplementation in 20 obese males — 10 with type 2 diabetes, and 10 without. The 20 were randomized to receive either 1,000 mg GSH (a common form of glutathione present in the body) or a placebo.
The results were promising: the group receiving glutathione improved their whole-body insulin sensitivity, meaning that it became easier for them to move glucose from the bloodstream into the cells. And the glutathione had apparently been absorbed and sent to where it was needed; a muscle biopsy confirmed that GSH concentrations increased by 19% in skeletal muscles. These findings occurred in subjects both with and without type 2 diabetes, suggesting that oral glutathione could help prevent prediabetes from developing into full-blown diabetes.

This is from my first book, It Feels Good to Feel Good. (Which has won 17 awards).

 

· Glutathione Plays a crucial role in immune function.
o Promotes T-cell function, which is critical for a strong immune system.
o Helps prevent drug resistance.
o Protects from environmental toxins.
o Discourages cancer progression.
• Food sources are beans, cabbage (raw), beets, spinach (raw), and parsley, and asparagus. Green beans, cucumber. For a complete list of foods that produce glutathione, https://draxe.com/glutathione/
• Research on glutathione is all new, so I am learning as the people I follow are learning.

 

Who is this important for?  These are  all the areas of the body impacted by free radical oxidative stress.

On a personal note:

• I have improved my diabetes Type II to borderline prediabetic, and I did heal my Fatty Liver. Much of it was with the foods I was eating, and I was also taking supplements to support my liver of Milk Thistle and Alpha Lipoic acid, but I read an article about a new glutathione that was swished in the mouth and sprayed on the face that had a nano sized molecule and both John and I started to use it.
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• We did find a difference in how we were feeling. Both John and I also noticed a change in our skin and our sunspots. John started to get back his brown hair and a bit of new hair growth around the edges.

 

An amazing new product- Neumi

 

I have included information about a glutathione product that John and I now take. I carry it in my office for John and me, but I can sell it to you if you are interested. I never sell anything that I don’t use and am not crazy about. There are 3 products from this company, and I am crazy about all of them. I do believe it has been instrumental in my returning to wellness and I do think it’s a big reason why my skin looks so good. The company is Neumi. The 3 products are the glutathione that you swish, which has an amazing technology behind it that is patented that takes the glueathione down to a nano size and which then allows it to go through cell walls directly to the mitochrondria.

 

Then there is a glutathione that I spray on my face a couple of times a day. Even my sun spots are fading using it, the lines around my lips are fading, and others have seen their wrinkles fade. John is seeing a difference in his skin and in his hair which is slowly returning to his brown color and he has new hair growth around the edges.  We both believe that our skin looks as great as it does in our 70s partially because of these products.

 

The 3rd product is called Hers which balances hormones using the same nanotechnology.  Even though I am past my menopause days, and obviously John doesn’t have female hormones, we both feel the benefits of these products.

 

Each one retails for $65 which would be your price. If you would like to try it, I would set you up to buy it directly if interested under me. The wholesale is $50, so it’s not a huge margin. The research behind the product is amazing and they do Sat training meetings. It’s the size of the molecule that allows a delivery system that doesn’t get killed off by the body.

This is a video that the company made that you should watch.