For many months I have been writing about the wonders of alkalinity and the powerful health benefits we experience from consuming high alkaline foods.   I was recently giving a demonstration at a local trade fair when I met a gentleman whom I found very interesting.

This fellow was a retired petro-chemical engineer.  He was one of the very few people that I meet that really understands the science behind the state of dysbiosis that is happening in our bodies as we age.

He was so refreshing to speak with that we decided to meet later for coffee.  I always try to keep an open mind and I also have learned, in my 56 years on this planet, that everything happens for a reason – and that reason is usually for our own benefit… whether we immediately recognize that fact or not.

My new friend was very knowledgeable about many bodily functions and processes.  But what most interested me was his understanding of the situation regarding glutathione and it function in our bodies.

I remember bookmarking a link I found 6 months ago that talked about the use and function of glutathione.  The molecule is a substance that our  bodies manufactures by itself.  It is not something that we can eat or inject with any reasonable degree of efficacy.  The digestive process destroys glutathione very early in the game, so virtually none of it gets to do any work on us.

What peaked my curiosity is the fact that we all have glutathione already, but our systems begin to destroy it as we get older.  the scientists call this “glutathione reduction” – and apparently it’s a bad situation and possibly the cause of our premature aging.  The real question for me is this.  Do we age because we destroy our glutathione?  Or do we destroy our glutathione because we age?

The chemical formula for glutathione is C10-H17-N3-O6-S.  It has six oxygen molecules and 4 of them are double bonded!  Double bonds are difficult to destroy, yet our bodies are finding a way.  The natural glutathione that does its wonderful work while we are young is the most potent antioxidant known to man.  Apparently it only works for the first part of our lives, then sadly wanes.  I suspect this situation is about to change!

Glutathione is extremely soluble in water and it is classed as a nutraceutical.  As a micronutrient it appears that corporate medicine has been trying to patent an ingestible form of it for some time.  So far there has been little success.

When I searched the US National Library of Medicine, I was surprised to find nearly 91,000 articles on the subject.  Clearly there is a lot of interest in this molecule.  It is widely described as the “mother of all antioxidants”.  Science says that, unlike other antioxidants, glutathione has the ability to recycle itself.  This may be one of the reasons that young people have such a youthful advantage.  Their glutathione levels are working well.  But somewhere along the line something happens that switches off the glutathione tolerance mechanism.  We begin to destroy the stuff and then we begin to age.   And we do not age in a straight line, as many of you will attest!  The age process seems get faster and faster.  How many times have we said that about time?  Like lines on the road… faster and faster.

My preliminary research has led me to a company that claims to have a complementary complex of molecules that, when taken orally, prohibit the body from destroying glutathione.  I am at the beginning stages of testing the efficacy of this product on both myself and two of my associates.  I will most definitely be writing about our findings in due course.  Whether the product is a success or a failure, you will find out here first.

If it is successful, my guess you are going to see new “gold rush” in the latter part of 2010 – and it is going to all about glutathione.