Glutathione
Structure / FunctionGlutathione is a small molecule your body builds on its own. It uses three amino acidOne of the small building blocks your body strings together to make proteins and other things it needs every day. building blocks to make it. People call it your master antioxidantA protector molecule — it steps in and defuses the unstable particles that would otherwise wear your cells down. because your cells lean on it every single day. Taking it by mouth helps top up the stores your body already keeps on hand. One note: the exact form and dose in this product aren't confirmed yet. Please confirm with your practitioner. (FORM/DOSE UNCONFIRMED — FLAG)
Your body uses glutathione to help calm free radicalsUnstable particles your body makes just from normal living (plus stress and pollution) that slowly damage cells over time — a bit like rust on metal.. Those are the everyday wear-and-tear molecules that build up as your cells do their work. Glutathione settles them down, then gets recycled and used again. This is part of your normal, built-in housekeeping — steady antioxidantA protector molecule — it steps in and defuses the unstable particles that would otherwise wear your cells down. defense and the routine detoxYour body's normal, built-in housekeeping that tidies up and clears out everyday byproducts. tidying your cells already do on their own.
Evidence · 4 studies
- In healthy adults, taking glutathione by mouth for 6 months raised the body's own stores, dose by dose. Richie et al. · Eur J Nutr · 2015PubMed →
- Healthy adults took it by mouth. Their stores went up. A marker of everyday cell wear fell by about a third. Sinha & Richie · Eur J Clin Nutr · 2018PubMed →
- Healthy adults took it by mouth. A measure of immune-cell activity (natural killer cells) went up. Richie et al. · Eur J Nutr · 2015PubMed →
- In small studies of healthy people, taking it by mouth went with gentle, even skin tone (in women) and a little less everyday fatigue after exercise (in men). Each is a single small study, so we keep it modest. Weschawalit et al. · Clin Cosmet Investig Dermatol · 2017 + Aoi et al. · J Int Soc Sports Nutr · 2015PubMed →
