Ashwagandha / sulphur food

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I am considering supplementing Ashwagandha to help my adrenals.

I cannot handle sulphur foods, and exclude them from my diet.

After a little bit of research, including here:

http://onibasu.com/archives/am/140907.html

I see that " Ashwagandha increases glutathione peroxidase activity "

Which doesn't mean very much to me……but it does ring bells.

And then here: http://onibasu.com/archives/am/2470.html

" Glutathione is your body's natural antioxidant and mercury is an

oxidation catalyst, so mercury uses up glutathione and leads to

reduced levels.

Glutathione has a thiol group on it which mobilizes mercury and

causes the mercury to be more toxic, so increasing glutathione

levels makes whatever amount of mercury is present be MORE harmful.

Thus there is a tradeoff, and you want the RIGHT AMOUNT of

glutathione for your body's needs. Not just more and more - you

don't want too much any more than you want too little.

Some people's bodies respond to mercury by making more thiol

containing things like glutathione and cysteine. For these people

they need to REDUCE their intake of everything sulfury to keep

levels down.

Other people's bodies respond to mercury by having low levels of

glutathione etc. and they need to INCREASE their intake of sulfury

stuff. "

Question: Does that mean that, because I know that I cannot handle

sulphur foods, that I should avoid Ashwagandha?

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