What does L-Glutathione Do?

L-Glutathione is an important antioxidant in plants, animals, fungi and some bacteria and archaea. It can prevent the damage of reactive oxygen species such as free radicals, peroxides, lipid peroxides and heavy metals to important cell components, and plays an important role in living organisms. Glutathione is a tripeptide composed of glutamic acid, cysteine and glycine, containing sulfhydryl group, which has antioxidant and integrated detoxification effects.

L-Glutathione can not only eliminate free radicals in the body, but also improve the body’s immunity. L-Glutathione is a healthy, anti-aging substance that has a greater effect on the cells of older people than younger ones.

L-Glutathione also protects hemoglobin from oxidation by hydrogen peroxide and free radicals so that it can continue to carry oxygen properly. Under the action of oxidizing agents such as hydrogen peroxide, some hemoglobin in red blood cells is oxidized with ferric iron to ferric iron, which makes hemoglobin turn into methemoglobin, thus losing the ability to carry oxygen. Reduced glutathione can not only directly combine with oxidizing agents such as hydrogen peroxide to produce water and oxidized L-Glutathione, but also reduce methemoglobin to hemoglobin. L-Glutathione is abundant in human red blood cells, which plays an important role in protecting the sulfhydryl group of proteins on the red blood cell membrane from being reduced and preventing hemolysis.

L-Glutathione protects the -SH group in the enzyme molecule, which is beneficial to the play of the enzyme activity, and can restore the activity function of the -SH group in the enzyme molecule that has been destroyed, so that the enzyme can restore the activity. Glutathione also inhibits fatty liver disease caused by alcohol poisoning.

L-Glutathione has a strong protective effect on the symptoms of leukopenia caused by radiation and radiopharmaceutics. L-Glutathione can be combined with toxic compounds, heavy metal ions or carcinogens into the human body, and promote their excretion, play a neutralization and detoxification role.