High performance athletes also discover that optimal GSH levels gives them greater strength, and endurance, decreased recovery time from injuries, less muscle pain, less fatigue and a ‘fitter’ feeling. (Journal of Applied Physiology 87: 1381-1385, 1999)
The Journal of Clinical Epidemiology (47: 1021-26, 1994) stated that glutathione levels diminish with aging and many diseases associated with aging may, in fact, be merely glutathione deficiency diseases. Laboratory tests with mice showed that those with enhanced GSH blood levels lived 30% longer than other so-called ‘normal mice’. That is the human equivalent of living 100-120 years; an age that many of us in the natural health field have been saying for decades that human life expectancy should be. Elevating your GSH levels seems to be the key to keeping your youth. It seems like a panacea. The list of diseases proven to be helped by elevating your glutathione levels is legion. No wonder so much research has been done on this one intracellular protein. Panaceas are the ‘bete-noir’ of medicine, but here we seem to have one. Although, not really. It is just that GSH it so critical to cells that with low levels they cannot function properly in any of the 3 life-sustaining areas: detoxification, anti-oxidation, and foreign substance invasion. The list of diseases resulting when one or all of these functions misfires can number into the 100’s.
I my next article, I will look at the dietary sources and the importance supplementing your glutathione levels.
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