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What are the REAL benefits of a FUNCTIONAL Glutathione? This will shock you!

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What is glutathione really used for? Glutathione is an incredibly important antioxidant known as the master antioxidant. But reduced glutathione, GSH is what's the important version of it. GSSG or the oxidized version of glutathione is the inert version of it.

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uh where it's been oxidized and already completed its purpose where then it can either be reduced by utilizing glutathione transferase to make it into the reduced GSH form again or your body creates more GSH new glutathione.

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Glutathione is used in every part of the detox process. Uh our body has the incredible ability to detoxify itself from toxins and other crazy free radicals, heavy metals, all kinds of things. But our body utilizes

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glutathione to assist in every step of the process of detox. That's why glutathione is known as the master antioxidant. Right from the very beginning of the process as a conjugation when the toxins are first started to be broken down, reactive

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oxygen species are created and that's why glutathione needs to be there to even stabilize that. So what's the problem with reactive oxygen species? They cause oxidative stress. And so oxidative stress, oxidative damage are what injure your cells and injure the

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proteins that are created in your cells. Think about it. If you had a uh basically a bunch of little BB's bouncing around inside the nucleus of your cell, damaging your DNA, this causes downstream effects that cause the translation and transcription of your

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DNA into nucleotides into proteins. It causes them to create bad proteins. And if you're creating bad proteins from mutations caused by the damage, then that's how cancer cells are developed. That's how other problems arise. So you

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need to protect your cells from oxidative stress and oxidative damage. That's where glutathione is incredibly important and all other antioxidants. They are hugely beneficial. So glutathione as well as sod. Sod is the one that deals directly with the super oxide or radicals together provide an

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amazing benefit. That's why we deal so much with with antioxidants. Why we've created our VARS glutathione and our VARS line of antioxidants is to help protect you against all of these different threats. So glutathione, the master antioxidant, is the master

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detoxifier that helps protect at the the microscopic molecular level uh of the detox process. Make sure to use yours.

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