Glutathione - some simple facts

Glutathione is a tri-peptide, a molecule containing the 3 amino acids: L-Glutamic acid, L-Cysteine and Glycine.

Glutathione levels in the human body increase continuously from birth up until the age of 20 and then decrease by about 8-15% each decade thereafter so that by the age of 70, the average healthy person would have what he or she had at age 20.

What is interesting, and probably needs more investigation, is that healthy people who reach the ripe old age of 100 often have glutathione levels expected of 30 year olds.

When an elderly person is unhealthy, most of the body's glutathione is utilized fighting the condition leaving healthy cells defenseless against damage from many free radicals.

People with serious viral conditions can have very low glutathione levels.

Autistic children are known to have chronically low levels of glutathione.


There will be more simple facts posted in the next post...

Glutathione - how important is it?

Just how important is Gluathione in terms of the human body?

Searches on Google reveal the following number of "hits":

gluathione: 266,000

pubmed abstracts gluathione: 250,000

biology glutathione : 234,000

medical facts glutathione : 229,000

types of glutathione: 200,000

importance of glutathione 170,000

Now compare this with other searches, for example:

seratonin: 282,000

"cellular biology": 213,000

carnosine: 44,000

I use these simple facts to begin to describe the importance of gluathione in human biology.

My job in this blog will be to elicit the most pertinent information and distill it into digestible portions. There is a wealth of information on glutathione and I trust that you will find the nuggets uncovered will greatly assist you in your understanding of the importance of glutathione in the biology of the human body.