Glutathione is a tripeptide composed of glutamic acid, cysteine and amino acetic acid. The rate of aging is proportional to the concentration of glutathione inside the cell, and as a person becomes old, the concentration of glutathione decreases. Glutathione is also found in plants and cleans up free radicals (which are highly oxidizing and can damage biomacromolecules in plants).
For medical treatment, reduced glutathione (GSH) is a thiol tripeptide consisting of glutamic acid, cysteine and glycosyline. It is widely distributed in various cells of the body, especially in liver cells, and plays an important role in liver metabolism, detoxification and anti-damage. Glutathione can achieve good results in the treatment of drug-induced liver damage.
Glutathione has the functions of anti-oxidation, scavenging free radicals, detoxification, enhancing immunity, delaying aging, anticancer, anti-radiation and so on, and is an important functional factor, which is widely used in food and medicine.
GSH contains active sulfhydryl -SH, which can reduce H2O2 generated by human cell metabolism to H2O and remove free radicals in the human body. Free radicals can damage cell membranes, promote aging, and cause tumors or arteriosclerosis. GSH has an anti-peroxidation effect on human cells, and can also improve the antioxidant capacity of the skin and make the skin shine.
Anti-browning agent glutathione has the function of preventing pigmentation, preventing skin aging and pigmentation, and reducing the formation of melanin. Adding glutathione to canned fruit can prevent fruit Browning; Added to dairy products can effectively prevent enzymatic and non-enzymatic Browning.
Glutathione has a broad spectrum of detoxification, can be combined with toxic compounds such as acrylonitrile, fluoride, carbon monoxide, heavy metal ions or carcinogens into the body, and promote their excretion, can be used for the treatment of the above-mentioned substances poisoning.
The latest research shows that glutathione can treat the allergy caused by the imbalance of acetylcholine and cholinesterase in the human body, and has an anti-allergic effect.
Glutathione has a preventive effect on leukopenia caused by radiation, radiopharmaceutics or antitumor drugs, and can be used as an adjunct therapy for tumor chemoradiotherapy.
The broad spectrum physiological function of glutathione can make it widely used in food, especially in anti-aging, enhance immune function, anti-tumor functional food as a base material, has the role of strengthening nutrition.
One of the main antioxidant systems is the glutathione (GSH) REDOX cycle and increases antioxidant protection.
