Re: Glutathione

N-Acetyl-L-Cysteine, or NAC, is an amino acid that acts as an antioxidant and is a precursor to glutathione (GSH). While glutathione can be described as the most important endogenously produced antioxidant in the human body, it is also a (tri)peptide, and the body has a tendency to cleave peptides into their individual units. In the case of glutathione, those individual amino acid units are glutamic acid, glycine and cysteine. Of these, cysteine is the most critical for GSH synthesis, and N-acetyl-l-cysteine is an excellent form of cysteine. Therefore, while there is still a school of thought that believes supplemental glutathione can be effective, the fact remains that the most important component for the synthesis of glutathione is NAC. NAC is also more bioavailable than glutathione and is approximately 6 times as cost-effective. However, it is in the role of glutathione precursor that NAC exerts most of its beneficial effects.

From Research Page: http://www.aor.ca/html/products.php?id=140


OR

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/frequent-dose-chelation/message/29393



The DMSA study on autistic children reported at recent Autism One
conferences found that some had low glutathione and some had high
glutathione, and that both became more normal with DMSA.

from prior post:

What I read on page 204 of AI . "People with low liver
gluatathione should take NAC all the time, especially because
LA removes more gluatathione from the liver than normal. "
So while taking ALA gluatathione levels will be lowered even
more.


Also on page 111 "If the glutathione conjugagtion is slow
it will slow the liver's excretion of heavy metals in the
bile.This is best corected with N-acetylcysteine."

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