Glutathione vitamin C

Glutathione vitamin C are both considered antioxidants. However not all antioxidants are measured equally. Vitamin C’s function depends on the amount of glutathione (GSH) that is available in the body.

In addition vitamin C must be taken in by the body in the form of fruits, vegetables, supplements, and the like. Glutathione is a substance that we are all born with, yet the amount of glutathione that we need to remain vital and healthy decreases as we age.

For example, young people do not need to add glutathione to their diets, unless they are involved in strenuous athletic activities, which could compromise their immune systems.

As an Olympic athlete at the age of 27, I compromised my immune system on the way to setting the 100m Canadian record.

I developed chronic bronchitis, and for years was given antibiotics to fight the disease.

However, nothing worked until I was introduced to glutathione many years later. For young people the amount of glutathione they are born with is a natural protector for their immune systems, is a powerful detoxifier, and antioxidant.

Yet for adults that are over 35 years old adding glutathione is necessary, no matter how healthy you are, because the body simply begins to function less efficiently.

As previously mentioned, glutathione vitamin c work together in a cooperative relationship, where the addition of vitamin C at about 500-2000mg/day has been shown to significantly increase the level of GSH red cell blood count.

What this demonstrates is that by increasing your vitamin C, you can increase you natural GSH levels. However, if you have relatively low glutathione level, which most adults do, then how well vitamin C functions will be adversely affected.

One of the roles of vitamin C is to remove free radicals (harmful waste produced in the body ), by neutralizing them and eliminating them out of the body. The actual process is complex, but imagine vitamin C surrounding (neutralizing) the waste until it can do no more harm, then passing it out of the system.

Such wastes like tobacco, alcohol, metals found in food like mercury, lead from the paints on our homes, trichloro-ethane from dry cleaning, and a whole host of things in the air we breathe can all accumulate in our bodies, which may led to cancer, Alzheimer’s and other diseases.

However vitamin C cannot complete its function without enough glutathione.

Imagine vitamin C going into the cell, surrounding the waste, eliminating it, and then going back to continue to do its job, but then the amount of glutathione begins to decrease.

The vitamin C might be able to surround (neutralize) the waste, but cannot eliminate it, and as time goes on the waste just accumulates in the human body.

Such is the dependency of all other antioxidants on the presence of glutathione. It is definitely a good practice to increase your vitamin C whether it is through supplementation or fruits and vegetable, but it is clear that you must have enough glutathione in your body to take advantage of the benefits of vitamin C

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