The Master Antioxidant--Glutathione (GSH)--
 May Revolutionize the Treatent of Disease
(Ontario, GoodMedNews.com, April 2005)

Glutathione (GSH), a protein that is essential to cell metabolism, also plays a strong role as an antioxidant and defender against infection and environmental toxins. Dr. Jimmy Gutman, formerly of McGill University in Montreal, cites research that supports the benefits of GSH for a variety of health conditions, including cancer, heart disease, stroke, Alzheimer's, chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia. GSH, a chain of three amino acids (a tripeptide), includes cysteine, which tends to be inadequate in the North American food supply. Recent research continues to demonstrate that GSH is often deficient in patients with chronic disease and the challenge is to supplement patients in ways that will make supplies optimally available to their bodies for maintaining health. A simple cysteine-rich protein extracted from milk may hold the key by providing precursors that can make it from the mouth to the intestines and into the cell walls, where the body manufactures GSH.