Glutathione - Antioxidant And Detoxification

Glutathione is a tripeptide composed of glutamic acid, cystine and glycine. It is the prosthetic group of glyceronic acid dehydrogenase, and the coenzyme of glyoxalase and triose phosphate dehydrogenase. It participates in the tricarboxylic acid cycle and sugar metabolism in the body, so that the human body can obtain high energy.

Glutathione can activate a variety of enzymes, thereby promoting the metabolism of carbohydrates, fats and proteins, and can also affect the metabolic process of cells. It is an important regulatory metabolite in cells. Reduced glutathione activates a variety of enzymes in the body. It is an important detoxification substance in the human body. It can protect the body from iodoacetic acid, mustard gas, free radicals (such as superoxide anion), heavy metals (such as mercury, lead), cyclic Oxides and other harmful substances poisoning. Therefore, glutathione is also used for the rescue of heavy metal and organic solvent poisoning.

Reduced glutathione is an important antioxidant, and its most important role is to prevent liver damage. It belongs to anti-tumor adjuvant drugs in drug classification. In the process of radiotherapy and chemotherapy, the use of reduced glutathione can not only protect the liver, but also prevent and treat radiation damage, leukopenia and radiation-induced bone marrow tissue inflammation.

Not only can glutathione be used to protect the liver during chemotherapy and radiotherapy, it can also be used in alcoholism and in the process of taking traditional Chinese medicine or other hepatotoxic drugs (such as anti-tuberculosis drugs, anticancer drugs, antidepressants). Glycide protects the liver. Glutathione also has a good protective effect on liver damage caused by viral hepatitis such as hepatitis B and hepatitis C. The product instruction manual of glutathione tablets (atomolan) indicates that it is suitable for hepatitis B liver protection therapy.

Glutathione is widely found in animal and plant cells, with the highest content in the liver and crystals, and we can get it from food. But now glutathione can also be produced by chemical synthesis or fermentation, which is more convenient to obtain.

Glutathione also has the function of protecting the eyes and whitening, it can promote the metabolism of eye tissue, can inhibit the instability of crystal protein thiol, prevent the development of cataract and retinal diseases, so it can be used for keratitis, corneal trauma, etc., to protect vision . However, to achieve the effect of preventing these diseases, you need to use glutathione regularly before entering old age. After taking glutathione, it can also relieve skin pigmentation problems (such as sweat spots, age spots, melasma, etc.).

Glutathione protects the -SH group in the enzyme molecule, which is conducive to the performance of the enzyme activity, and can restore the active function of the -SH group in the destroyed enzyme molecule, so that the enzyme can regain its activity. Glutathione can also inhibit fatty liver caused by ethanol damage to the liver.

Glutathione has a strong protective effect on symptoms such as leukopenia caused by radiation and radiopharmaceuticals. Glutathione can combine with toxic compounds, heavy metal ions or carcinogens that enter the human body, and promote its excretion from the body to neutralize and detoxify.