Biological Effects Of Glutathione

In the human body, glutathione mainly plays the roles of fighting free radicals, detoxifying exogenous substances, reducing vitamin C, protecting DNA, regulating cell proliferation and apoptosis, regulating immune function and fibrogenesis. Better than general antioxidants.

Imbalanced glutathione is often associated with a variety of diseases, such as cancer, aging, cystic fibrosis, cardiovascular, inflammatory, immune, metabolic, neurodegenerative diseases.

Glutathione has a variety of biological effects, can scavenge free radicals in the body, and has obvious curative effect on organ damage caused by chemotherapy and drugs. The sulfhydryl group of reduced glutathione can combine with oxygen free radicals to promote the synthesis of related enzymes. Accelerating the excretion of free radicals can also inhibit the release of inflammatory factors, and supplementing exogenous reduced glutathione can reduce free radical oxidation and inflammatory responses.

Glutathione combined with hemoperfusion therapy can improve multiple organ damage in patients with septic shock and help to promote the recovery of organ function. The reason may be that glutathione containing sulfhydryl can be used as a natural antioxidant in cells. By combining peroxides and free radicals, it accelerates the excretion of free radicals, participates in the redox process in the body, and antagonizes the damage of sulfhydryl-containing enzymes in cells by antioxidants. It can reduce the damage of free radicals to important organs such as the heart, liver, kidney and gastrointestinal tract, and change the pathophysiological process.