Andy, Re: Glutamate+ Glycine = Glutathione?

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> > I just read the following at the Wikepedia web site for Glutathione:

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> > " Glutathione is not an essential nutrient since it can be synthesized

> > from the amino acids L-cysteine, L-glutamate and glycine. "

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> > So, if I am taking a Glycine pill and L-Glutamine pill (same as

> > L-glutamate?), does that get converted to Glutathione - which I should

> > be avoiding right now?

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> Glycine, glutamine, and cysteine can be used by the body to make

> glutathione. They also can be used for lots of other things.

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> The thing with glutathione is that it is often not good to get too

> much at one time, like with a glutathione IV. The body knows how much

> it wants and there would be a feedback mechanism to stop production

> when there is enough. The body would never flood the system with

> glutathione like an IV would.

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> Transdermal glutathione probably doesn't flood the system as much as

> an IV would but I have heard of people having problems with that,

> presumably because of too much of a good thing all at once.

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> According to " Amalgam Illness " if glutathione is given orally it would

> be broken down during digestion or it is possible that if the person

> has a leaky gut fragments could get through and start an immune

reaction.

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