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Glutathione The Secret to Better Health


by Carson Pay


Few individuals beyond the fields of functional medicine and natural health care have ever heard of glutathione. Fewer still know that this simple molecule is necessary to stay healthy and prevent disease. A recent Huffington Post blog by Mark Hyman, M.D., a practicing medical doctor and the founder of functional medicine, elevates glutathione to a new status, “The mother of all antioxidants,” and the secret to preventing aging, cancer, heart disease and dementia.


Produced naturally in


the body, glutathione is a combination of three simple building blocks of protein, or amino acids: cysteine, gly- cine and glutamine. Hyman explains that the molecule’s power resides in the sulfur– based chemical groups it contains.


“Sulfur is a sticky, smelly molecule that acts like flypa- per, and all the bad things in the body stick onto it, includ- ing free radicals and toxins such as mercury and other


heavy metals,” says Hyman, who has been treating chroni- cally ill patients with functional medicine for more than 10 years. Through his own patient research and study, Hyman discovered that our ability to produce and maintain a high level of glutathione is critical to recovering from nearly all chronic illness—and to preventing disease, controlling in- flammation, fighting infections and allergies and maintaining optimal health and performance. He points out that authors of 76,000 medical articles on glutathione have discovered the same thing. Poor diet, medications, stress, trauma, aging, infections


and radiation, as well as pollution and toxins, all deplete the body’s glutathione, leaving it susceptible to unrestrained cell disintegration from oxidative stress, free radicals, infections and cancer. “Your liver also gets overloaded and damaged, making it unable to do its job of detoxification,” notes Hyman.


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versity of California–San Francisco, the bodies of virtually all U.S. pregnant women carry multiple manmade chemicals. Some of those counted are found in flame retardants now banned in many states; some were used in the DDT pesticide that was banned nationwide in 1972. Other chemicals of concern con- tinue to be used in non- stick cookware, packaging of processed foods such as


Chemical Alert A


ccording to a new study from the Uni-


metal cans, and personal care products. Because chemicals can cross from the mother through the placenta and enter the fetus, exposure during fetal devel- opment is problematic. The researchers note that prior studies have shown that such exposure increases the risk of preterm birth, birth defects and childhood morbidity, as well as adult diseases and earlier mortality. The new study marks the first time that the number of chemicals that pregnant women are exposed to has been counted; it analyzed for a total of 163 possible chemicals.


Hot Flashes Signal Good News W


omen who have expe- rienced hot flashes and other menopausal symptoms may have as much as a 50 percent lower risk of develop- ing the most common forms of breast cancer than postmeno- pausal women who have never had such symptoms, accord- ing to a new study by the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.


Commenting on the study, breast cancer Oncolo-


gist Dr. Stefan Gluck, of the University of Miami’s Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, observes that the reduction in risk evidently linked to a natural decrease in estrogen is substantial. “At age 50, a woman has on average, a 2 percent risk of getting breast cancer; so if she experiences menopaus- al symptoms, the risk is suddenly only 1 percent,” he says.


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