Glutathione (GSH)
is much more than just another antioxidant-it’s your body’s most powerful protector and healing agent. It also protects from bacteria, viruses, toxins, pollutants-even cancer. Only when your cells get the building blocks they need to produce this remarkable molecule can they maintain your immune system in optimal health.
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A New Outlook on Life’s Health Challenges
Let’s face it, most of us live a fast-paced lifestyle that is very demanding on
our health. The habit of reacting only once the body breaks down is giving
way to the realization that prevention can be the best medicine.
Glutathione is emerging as one of the keys to the health puzzle. It was the
discovery of glutathione’s importance in optimizing your body’s first line of
defense – your immune system – that led to the development of a whey
product that raises intracellular glutathione.
Glutathione: The Next Household Word
You may or may not have heard of glutathione, even though over tens of
thousands of medical articles have highlighted its importance. Optimizing
glutathione levels will shortly join the list of factors known by everyone to
have an impact on our health and well-being, along with vitamin
supplementation and cholesterol regulation.
Glutathione is a small protein produced naturally in every cell of our body. It
is made up of three protein building blocks, called amino acids. These are
glutamic acid, cysteine and glycine. The cysteine amino acid contains a
sulfur group responsible for the chemical properties of the whole glutathione
protein.
Glutathione: An Essential Health AID
There are three major roles of glutathione in the body:
Antioxidant
Immune booster
Detoxifier
Even cells in the healthiest of individuals constantly need to replenish their
glutathione supply.
The Master Antioxidant (AID)
Antioxidants participate directly in the destruction of reactive oxygen
compounds called free radicals. These by-products of a cell’s normal
function can’t be avoided, but exposure to ultraviolet radiation from the sun or
other sources promotes their emergence. Free radicals have been linked to
muscle fatigue during exercise and aging.
For this reason, the body is equipped with a variety of antioxidants. Vitamins
C and E are natural antioxidants but do not occur naturally in the body. These
and other antioxidants actually depend on glutathione to function properly,
which is why glutathione is called “the Master Antioxidant”.
Food for the Immune System (AID)
Glutathione helps build your immune system’s resistance and improve your
chances of staying healthy.
Lymphocytes are cells of your immune system. Glutathione is essential for
lymphocytes to increase in number, produce antibodies, and function
efficiently.
A Natural Detoxifier (AID)
Our food and water sources are becoming increasingly contaminated with
chemicals, as is the air that we breathe. Supplemental detoxifiers such as
glutathione help to counter the effects of the toxins we inhale and ingest.
By physically binding to toxic compounds in cells, glutathione helps make
them soluble - and harmless. The body can then eliminate these disarmed
toxins in the bile and urine.
Raise Glutathione Levels—But How?
The fact is, you can’t ingest glutathione to feed it to your cells. Glutathione
must be manufactured within your cells. What you can do is help this natural
process by giving your body the glutathione building blocks it needs. The
limiting factor in your daily intake of building blocks is the amino acid
cysteine.
Cysteine, traveling alone as an amino acid through our digestive system, is
poorly absorbed and very little of it will actually make the trip from our mouths
to our cells. Luckily, when cysteine molecules bind to each other to travel in
pairs, they can survive this process. They do this by forming a bond between
sulfur molecules. These bonded cysteine amino acids are then called
‘cystine’. Although this sulfur bond is resistant to the digestive process, it is
easily broken if submitted to heat or mechanical stress.
Immunocal’s Unique Manufacturing Process
Immunocal is a highly purified protein powder isolated from whey (milk
serum) that was developed by Dr. Gustavo Bounous, one of Canada's most
recognized scientific researchers. Before Dr. Bounous and his colleagues
devised the technique used to produce Immunocal, the scientific community
was unsuccessful at producing a supplement rich in active bonded cysteine.
Immunocal’s secret lies in its proprietary manufacturing process that
guarantees:
• The most natural of products isolated in the most natural of conditions.
• A protein source that remains active, which is accomplished by maintaining
the fragile, precious bond between cysteine amino acids.
• An even distribution of active protein throughout the product, for the same
efficacy in every serving.
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Raise Glutathione Levels - Safely and Naturally
There are other synthetic ways in which glutathione levels may be raised.
However, the high level of side effects limits their long-term use. In contrast,
Immunocal is just as effective and has no known side effects when used as
directed. It contains natural proteins isolated from milk, but a negligible
amount of lactose; therefore, even lactose - intolerant individuals can use it
safely.
Immunocal: Feeding Bonded Cysteine to Cells
Numerous clinical studies have been performed, using the highest standard
of scientific design, to prove Immunocal’s efficacy and reliability. In one such
study, Immunocal was proven to raise glutathione levels by 35.5% in
lymphocytes.
What’s more, testimonial evidence from thousands of satisfied customers in
a dozen countries confirms what science was able to prove: Immunocal
works!