Catharine Arnston

One is glutathione.

And the master one is called, it's a long word, sorry about it, it's called superoxide dismutase, also known as SOD.

It gets into the inner membrane of the mitochondria, neutralizes the free radicals so that it doesn't harm the mitochondria.

Now, the good news is your body makes this stuff for you from the moment you're born, just like it makes melatonin and hormones for women, estrogen and testosterone.

But after the age of 30 and eventually 40, your body slows down the production of this stuff called SOD until you hit 40 and 45.

So you're right at the cusp, Ryan, and you basically have none.

And the best way I describe to people what this SOD, superoxide dismutase, does for you is you've all seen those golf umbrellas, right?

They're ginormous.

And whether you're golfing or shopping and you get stuck in a rainstorm,

You pop that thing up, boom, you could get like 10 people under one of those golf umbrellas.

Now, you haven't stopped the rain, but you've stopped getting wet.

Superoxidismutase is the same way.

It doesn't stop the rain of free radicals, which are a natural byproduct of ATP production, but it converts them to oxygen and water.

So it protects the mitochondria from damage.

And that works for you from the moment you're born till 30.

By the time you're 40, that golf umbrella is about the size of a totes umbrella.

By the time you're 45 and then 50, it's about the size of a cocktail umbrella.

So now...

While the free radicals never stopped, now they are hitting the mitochondria and they are dying and getting damaged.

And so you have less energy to think, you have less energy to fight diseases, you have less energy to get your metabolic health working.