Glutathione Benefits
Help Every Part of Your Body

Glutathione benefits include increased energy, a stronger immune system, healthy liver function and relief for chronic inflammation. Your need for glutathione increases in times of high physical stress, like after a workout, or when recovering from injury or illness.

Some scientists consider glutathione to be the most important antioxidant that you have. Your levels of glutathione largely determine whether you feel good and have plenty of energy, or you don't. When your levels drop, you also leave yourself open to increased risk from all types of degenerative diseases.

Glutathione circulates continuously throughout your body, rejuvenating immune cells and removing toxic waste products from your system. It transports vital amino acids to your cells and helps to strengthen your cell membranes.

Glutathione is the most abundant water-soluble antioxidant in your body. It's an important member of the antioxidant network family that includes lipoic acid, CoQ-10, and vitamins C and E. These antioxidants work as a team — they have the unique capability of regenerating each other when any one of them gets depleted in your body.

How Do You Get Glutathione Benefits?

Glutathione is primarily manufactured in your body from a combination of amino acids: cysteine, glutamic acid and glycine. Of these, cysteine, is the one that most determines how much you can produce. Two other nutrients, zinc and vitamin B2 are also important glutathione precursors.

Glutathione Food Sources Certain foods, such as raw milk products, raw eggs, and raw meat contain high concentrations of the precursor amino acids that your body uses to make glutathione. Fresh fruits and vegetables are also an excellent source of glutathione precursors. See my page on glutathione food sources to find out the best foods to eat to raise your levels of glutathione.

General Glutathione Benefits

One of glutathione's most important functions is to protect your DNA from free radical attacks. free radicals have been identified as one opf the primary causes of degenerative diseases and premature aging.

Glutathione is responsible for protecting cells from free radical attacks that are resistant to other antioxidants such as vitamin E, vitamin C and the carotenoids. This is another example of how the different members of the network complement each other, and why it's important to get all of them into your diet.

Specific Glutathione Benefits

Raising your levels of glutathione helps your body build up its resistance to all kinds of threats to your health. Numerous studies have demonstrated the following specific glutathione benefits:

• prevents chronic inflammation
• protects your eyes and skin from UV damage from the sun
• regulates immune cells and fights viruses
• fights autoimmune diseases


• promotes healthy liver function
• protects your cells against oxidation from air pollution
• helps eliminate toxins from your cells

Glutathione benefits may help prevent many degenerative diseases:

• asthma
• bronchitis
• cancers of the liver and ovaries
• psoriasis


• chronic fatigue syndrome
• cataracts and glaucoma
• retinal disease and diabetic blindness

Glutathione levels are severely depleted in people with illnesses such as asthma, cancer, AIDS and other autoimmune diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis and lupus. There is also a strong correlation between cirrhosis of the liver and low levels of glutathione.

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