What Is Glutathione?

Glutathione is one of the body's key antioxidants. But beyond the effect of glutathione serving as a powerful antioxidant, it does a lot of other things:

• Glutathione allows for the regenesis of other antioxidants, like vitamin C and vitamin E.



• Glutathione plays an absolutely key and critical role in the liver in a process called Phase II Detoxification, where things that reside in the body that have been modified by what is called Phase I Activity then, through the action of glutathione, are excreted (glutathione makes them more water soluable so they can be excreted) in our very toxic world, having healthy amounts of glutathione in the liver available for the process of detoxification is critically important.



• Glutathione is important for the way the body repairs tissues.



• Glutathione also plays a fundamental role in the entire immune system.

Results of peer-reviewed study in 2008 and published online in the journal Free Radical Biology and Medicine clearly demonstrates that the synergistic impact of the active ingredients used in the formulation of Protandim dramatically increases the body's production of glutathione, a key antioxidant and anti-aging factor, as well as increases important antioxidant enzymes.



Protandim, a patented product developed by LifeVantage Corporation (OTCBB:LFVN), was proven by an earlier study to actually slow the progressive rate of aging. This new study confirms that Protandim's gene induction approach to antioxidant therapy provides much broader and more powerful benefits to the body than those provided by vitamins such as E and C, according to the Company.



The study was conducted by scientists at the University of Colorado Denver and Ochsner Medical Center and illustrated that all five of Protandim's active ingredients contribute synergistically to the composition's activity, allowing it to work at low, pharmacologically attainable doses of each. Even low doses of Protandim were shown to induce human cells to increase their production of many antioxidant enzymes, and other anti-aging factors.



"For years, efforts to develop a delivery system for Glutathione have been almost universally a failure," said Dr. David Perlmutter, LifeVantage Scientific Adisory Board Member. "What is so 'elegant' about Protandim and the science behind it, is that it doesn't worry about delivering glutathione to the body. In fact, it does not deliver any glutathione to the body. But the science of Protandim is such that it is able to speak to the body's DNA and unlock the DNA code to allow the body to make its own glutathione!"



In fact, clinical studies have demonstrated Protandim raises glutathione levels 300%!



"It is just a remarkable fit of elegance that is impressive in its simplicity, and its effectiveness and clinical efficacy," Dr. Perlmutter said. "Protandim is just in its infancy. There is going to be a global impact of this product."