How to Increase Glutathione, the Master Antioxidant

Glutathione: what you need to know about the master antioxidant. Timestamps 0:00 Glutathione 0:10 What is a free radical? 0:37 What is an antioxidant? 1:20 Glutathione 3:35 How to increase glutathione 4:15 Things that decrease glutathione Today we’re going to talk about the master antioxidant, which is glutathione. But first, what is an antioxidant? To understand what an antioxidant is, you really need to know what a free radical is. Let’s look at an atom with paired electrons. If one of those electrons is missing, this is an unpaired electron, making it unstable. This is called a free radical. Free radicals can create a lot of destruction throughout the cells, the cell machinery, the DNA, and more. An antioxidant then comes along and donates the missing electron to balance out the atom and stabilize it. The problem is, that the antioxidant now loses its electron, and it becomes unstable. It then needs to get an electron from another antioxidant. This is w