Dr. Datis Kharrazian

It's almost like if you have one, you're very likely to have the other one.

Yeah, so glutathione is the tripeptide amino acid.

Our body makes it.

It's the most abundant antioxidant we make.

And we can do things like take N-acetylcysteine or eat foods high in sulfur to raise our own nitric glutathione levels.

But glutathione is really...

I mean, the most important antioxidant, if you really think about it.

It protects our mitochondria, our cell powerhouses.

It's been shown to heal the blood-brain barrier, heal the lung barrier, heal the gut barrier.

It prevents oxidative stress inflammation from chemical exposures.

So it's one of those things that...

You could almost probably look at it as a variable of how fast someone ages or how fast someone becomes chronic or what their recovery is based on how their glutathione levels go down.

They've done studies where they've taken different gut pathogens and measure when the barriers start to break down in the gut from the infection.

And it's directly linked to when glutathione levels get depleted.

So, and same with the pulmonary barrier.

You can get exposed to environmental airborne triggers, then your lung barrier is intact until your glutathione levels get depleted, then your pulmonary barrier opens up.

So it's one of the most important antioxidants I think we all have.

And it's not a bad idea to take things like N-acetylcysteine daily.

You can also take glutathione as a supplement, as a daily type of preventive mechanism.

But it's not one of those things that may necessarily make you feel dramatically better, like most antioxidants.