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Glutathione is your body’s most powerful antioxidant—and your best natural defense against viruses

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What is glutathione? Why is it important? And then we can really understand the genetics behind why you need glutathione in your body. And a lot of people just can't make much of it too clearly because they're genetic snips. They have genetic errors or or mutations that they're not mutations. They're really transcription errors, but

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they've been passed down from their parents and from their ancestors. So glutathione is um is the most potent super antioxidant in your body by far and away. It's been one of those um pharmacologic problems how to make a functional glutathione forever. I mean

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for probably 50 60 years people have tried to make a functional glutathione and we we were the first to do it. So I know a lot about glutathione um and um and it's uh it removes toxins. It's how you remove viruses. Extremely

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important for viruses um EBV, HIV, stuff like that. Uh all of them, all the major ones you've heard of in the last few years. Um critical for antiviral work. All kinds of good articles have come out in the last year or two about how important it is. If you have a low

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glutathione level and get some viral infections, you're dead. So you do not want to have a low glutathione level or you will

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