This is another dietary supplement. In fact, glutathione is abundant in many parts of our beloved body. It is an antioxidant. Moreover, it is intracellular.
By its nature, glutathione belongs to the peptide family. It is made up of three amino acids linked together. The amino acids in it are not the most common, but quite famous ones, which are constantly heard by people: glycine, glutamate and cysteine. Just like two dietary supplements combined with a food supplement. Moreover, these amino acids are connected in an unusual way.
Besides the fact that glutathione is classified as an antioxidant, it also plays a signaling role. It conveys something to something.
Glutathione's adventures began when it was discovered that it was associated with physical performance in athletes. The idea immediately arose to catch up with glutathione. But it didn't work. As with any supplement, the manufacturers swore it helped, but they did not notice anything outstanding in scientific research.
Approximately the same result was obtained when, instead of glutathione, those three popular amino acids were fed separately to athletes.
Then they decided that with age, people have a decrease in glutathione levels, and this is accompanied by all sorts of ailments. Glutathione supplements have become popular with HIV, diabetes and cancer patients. They did not figure out how useful it could be, because no one checked this case in normal research.
There is a lot of glutathione in garlic, broccoli, spinach, asparagus, avocado. But people usually don't like that, so they looked for supplements in pills.
Very soon it turned out that a peptide such as glutathione is readily digested in the stomach and there may be problems with its delivery inside the body. They began to pack glutathione into fashionable liposomes, rub it into the skin, inject it into a vein, and even breathe it. Supplement makers just rubbed their hands together and calculated their profits.
People readily bought these supplements despite the fact that they often caused nausea, stomach pains, bloating and all kinds of allergies.
From inhalation of glutathione, bronchial asthma developed, and after intravenous administration, there were cases of severe reactions due to the admixture of bacterial toxins in the supplements.
In short, if people want to improve their health with something, then nothing will stop them. They will sniff and expand. Better to eat broccoli.
