Let’s explore “Polymyalgia rheumatica and inflammation”

PURSER WELLNESSThe Only Usable Form of Glutathione Is Reduced Glutathione (GSH)!From the reading room

This will be the first of many articles on glutathione, especially the reduced glutathione form known as GSH – the ideal glutathione or GSH product is reduced (GSH), stable, absorbable, efficacious, and patent-able. Glutathione is the body’s master antioxidant. Our bodies depend on GSH for the removal of toxins and GSH is at the heart of all immune functions. Glutathione is a tripeptide (L-glutamic acid, L-cysteine, and Glycine) that is known as the most prominent nonenzymatic antioxidant in the human body, and is a substrate of a regulatory system of enzymes involved in regulating glutathione

Ask your clinician to specify whole blood, RBC, plasma, or intracellular method. Preanalytic handling is critical.

The test method and how the sample is protected after collection can affect this number.

This ratio is useful only when both measurements were made using a reliable paired method.

RBC, plasma, and cellular assays are not interchangeable.

Understand why homocysteine became a health topic and why lowering a blood number is not the same as preventing disease.

See the two main routes for processing homocysteine and what may affect a blood result.

Learn how to read a specific genetic variant before drawing conclusions about homocysteine.

Explore why a low homocysteine number does not tell the whole nutrition story.

Compare studies of homocysteine and glutathione with evidence of benefit in people.

Separate questions about toxin exposure from questions about genetics and antioxidant pathways.

Think through the nutrition questions before cutting methionine or protein.