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so today let’s talk about the master

antioxidant

glutathione now what is an antioxidant

well to understand that you have to

understand what a free radical is

you take an atom with paired electrons

okay if one of those electrons is

missing we have an it’s called an

unpaired electron

making it unstable so that’s called a

free radical

it’s not very balanced and it can create

a lot of destruction

throughout the cells the cell machinery

the dna etc

so an antioxidant comes along and

donates

an electron to balance it out and

stabilize it

the problem is that antioxidant now

loses its electron and it becomes

unstable

it has to get electron from another

antioxidant so

this is why you have antioxidants in

networks

and this is why you should never take a

synthetic antioxidant

because they’ve been known to cause

cancer why because

synthetic antioxidants don’t come in

networks

they come as an individual synthetic

antioxidant

so once they donate their electron they

become

the problem they become the free radical

and that can create all sorts of damage

glutathione has been majorly studied

there’s over a hundred thousand peer

review papers

in scientific journals on this one

compound glutathione it’s the most

abundant antioxidant in the liver but

all your cells make it and so it reduces

oxidative stress

so if we’re going to start balancing out

these free radicals we’re going to

reduce the amount of

oxidation and stress of the body your

body also makes free radicals for

various things

killing microbes breaking down certain

things in chemical reactions

it even makes hydrogen peroxide

glutathione is there to help neutralize

some of these toxins that your body

actually makes for various things

also glutathione helps maintain

something called exogenous antioxidants

exogenous are those things that are

outside the body

so glutathione will help maintain

antioxidants that come from the diet

like vitamin c and vitamin e glutathione

this antioxidant that our body makes

helps

maintain these other antioxidants that

we get from the diet

and also these other antioxidants that

we take get from the diet

can also help maintain glutathione

glutathione not only acts as an

antioxidant

it also helps in detoxification

there are three phases of detoxification

phase one phase two phase

three where your body will take a poison

and through different enzyme reactions

breaks down that poison into a harmless

particle

and then gets rid of it through either

the skin

uh the kidney through the urine or the

bowel

which actually comes through the liver

and the bile and then through the

intestine

so your body is constantly trying to get

rid of stuff that’s not good for it

it’s the most abundant sulfur

antioxidant okay

all your cells make it but it’s probably

primarily

most concentrated in the liver because

it’s sulfur

if you consume certain foods that are

higher and softer

you will actually give your body the raw

material to make more glutathione

so take a wild guess what the

sulfur-based vegetables are

you guessed it cruciferous so eating

cruciferous vegetables will help you

with this right here also getting enough

vitamin c

from vegetables or other types of

vegetables will also

help you make more glutathione selenium

is a good trace mineral to help

build up glutathione as well milk

thistle strengthens the

liver cell so then your body can make

more glutathione

and also fasting will increase the

network

of antioxidants in the body which is

actually quite fascinating you would

think that by not eating it would shrink

the pool

of antioxidants it does just the reverse

it increases

so with age we decrease our ability to

make this

we drink too much alcohol stress

take drugs toxins over time

it decreases the glutathione a lot of

times people neglect the antioxidant

networks they’re very very important

at neutralizing toxic things they’re

also involved in

detoxification and these are a few

things you can do to make sure you don’t

run out of glutathione

as well as your other antioxidant

networks that you need