Sleep loss decreases the inflammation -
fighting antioxidant glutathione, which increases oxidative stress in the hypothalamus, causing brain fog.
Not exact matches
A new study reveals that human intestinal flora regulate the levels of the body's main
antioxidant,
glutathione, which
fights a host of diseases.
Proper methylation produces your body's top disease -
fighting antioxidant,
glutathione.
Here's how it works: Silymarin protects against depletion of
glutathione, a powerful
antioxidant that helps
fight oxidative stress, which can lead to skin, breast, prostate and cervical cancer, diabetes, and heart disease.
It also quite powerfully stimulates the immune system, increases disease -
fighting white blood cell production and activity, and elevates levels of superoxide dismutase and
glutathione peroxidase, two of the most powerful
antioxidants and health - promoting substances known to man, which likely have quite a bit to do with its longevity - enhancing properties.
A Nutrition Journal review of studies comparing grass - fed beef to the conventional kind that spanned more than 30 years found that grass - based diets raise cancer -
fighting antioxidant activity (
glutathione and superoxide dismutase) higher.
In addition, tamarind helps to normalize levels of triglycerides, or fats in the blood, while stimulating production of superoxide dismutase and
glutathione — potent disease -
fighting antioxidants.
Stinging nettle
fights sinus and respiratory problems, quercetin works as a natural antihistamine, rosemary leaf clears mucus from the lungs, and N - acetyle L - cystein aids in the formation of
glutathione, a healing
antioxidant.
But as the master
antioxidant,
glutathione helps
fight AMD by
fighting inflammation on the macula as well as other eye cells.
Glutathione antioxidant helps delay aging by
fighting free radicals and oxidative stress in each and every cell of the body.
Magnesium deficiency has also been tied to a reduction of
glutathione, another key
antioxidant your body uses to
fight off damage from free radicals.
In studies, ALA has been shown to help rejuvenate and replenish the free - radical
fighting capacity of both vitamins C and E. Plus, ALA also recharges levels of another critical substance,
glutathione, which is often referred to as the body's master
antioxidant.
Second, curcumin helps stimulate a very important genetic pathway known as the NRF2 pathway, which activates a whole set of
antioxidant genes, including genes like
glutathione synthase (which is the body's natural way of making
glutathione) and
glutathione peroxidase (which is the way the body uses
glutathione to
fight off damage) and is just one way that curcumin
fights damaging oxidants.
In fact, sulforaphane can sharply boost production of
glutathione — the body's «master»
antioxidant, and an important cancer -
fighting enzyme in its own right.
And, they significantly raised levels of a pair of
antioxidant, disease -
fighting enzymes — superoxide dismutase and
glutathione.
For instance, it protects our body's vitamin C, which as a result of
fighting with bad free radicals eventually itself becomes a form of a radical, but
glutathione is able to transform this altered vitamin C back to its
antioxidant state!
One
antioxidant in particular, a chemical called
glutathione, is thought to provide much of asparagus's disease -
fighting superpowers.