I've been reading a lot about glutathione and the new breakthrough health product that allows the body to produce its own glutathione. I've learned that our body starts declining in producing glutathione (which is vital to life and health) about the age of 20 and continues to decline 10% to 12% each decade. Plus, all the pollution, stress, illness, drugs, radiation, injury, trauma, burns, aging, poor diet and more continues to decrease the body's production of glutathione even more. My understanding is that there has been research since the 1800s to find a way to get the body to accept glutathione but it hasn't been possible until very recently.
Glutathione (GSH) is a small protein produced naturally in our cells when certain required elements are present. It functions both as an antioxidant and an antitoxin, and is a major defense system against illness and aging. Our glutathione level actually indicates our state of health and can predict longevity. Although there are more than 70,000 published papers on the beneficial effects of glutathione replacement, it is still largely ignored by mainstream medicine. Supplements containing glutathione alone will NOT increase the body's GSH levels. This is because the digestive system breaks down ingested glutathione and it will not be absorbed into your system. On the other hand, this new product, MaxGXL, provides the proper nutrients needed to promote the body's own ability to manufacture and absorb glutathione. It also aids in liver support by destroying environmental poisons helping the liver to function as the main production site and storehouse for glutathione.
The data indicate MaxGXL's effectiveness not only in populations who are immune-suppressed, but also in those who are stressed, aging, lacking sleep, or with any prolonged illness. In these situations, it stimulates the body's production of glutathione to compensate for the body's accelerated use of it, strengthening your natural defenses, decreasing your risk of illness and guarding agaianst the effects of the body's aging process.
I would love to know what Dr. Mercola's thoughts are about this need for glutathione and how this product works to enable the body to do what it was meant to do. Dr. Robert Keller MD, MS, FACP, MaxGXL creator (given a composition patent reserved usually for the pharmaceutical drugs), was able to verify signigicant increases in every subject tested.
I know that there are some excellent whey protein drinks that can get some glutathione into the body, but NOT at the cellular level and not to any signigicant levels to do what MaxGXL is able to do.
Any thoughts on this?
Connie,
I don't think this is the best product available for the purpose of upregulating Glutathione. If one of the ingredients is NAC, this can be purchased
for a lot less than the $70 charged for MaxGXL. Also NAC can actually cause an increase of oxidative stress. The only product that has been tested
on humans and proven to lower oxidative stress by 40 to 70 percent and lower the rate of aging is Protandim. Made from natural ingredients, this
product upregulates more than twenty of the body's catalytic antioxidant enzymes, including SOD by 34%, catalase 54%, and glutathione by 300%.
Protandim completely eliminates the age-dependent increase in oxidative stress, lowering it to the level of a 20-year-old regardless of age.
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