• promote longevity
• protect the body from heart disease
• prevent diabetes
• neutralize arthritis
• help to treat asthma and bronchitis
• reduce the effects of psoriasis
• reduce chronic fatigue syndrome and lupus
• boost the immune system

There are over 80,000 medical articles discussing glutathione.  Glutathione is your body’s master regulator of each cell.

Glutathione is produced naturally in your body and is a combination three building blocks of amino acids – cysteine, glutamine, and glycine.

Why You Need Glutathione

Glutathione is absolutely necessary for everyone to maintain a healthy immune system. Every major system in the body is affected by glutathione as it circulates through the body removing waste products and toxins while also giving energy a boost. When your body has high amounts of glutathione, it’s able to fight off minor illnesses quickly while keeping up your energy and alertness.

Glutathione is the primary antioxidant in your body. As free radicals and other dangers get passed from one place to another, they eventually wind up with the glutathione which helps to break the free radicals down and recycle them. Troubles begin to mount when the number of toxins is greater than the amount of glutathione in your system.

Without high amounts of glutathione, the body is hugely susceptible to the dangerous toxins and illness pervades. The lowest levels of glutathione have been found in the sickest members of our oldest generation. Time, exposure to the elements and natural aging effects decrease these levels, and if this continues unchecked, it can have a devastating impact on overall health.

Where Do These Toxins Come From?

For the first few thousands of years humans existed, the primitive glutathione system was able to handle any of the dangerous substances that found their way into the body. In just the last few decades, humans have begun a diet of processed, unhealthy foods and live in an area polluted with any number of toxins in the water we drink and the air we breathe. Many of us have been exposed to heavy metals and might have mercury fillings in our teeth. Thanks to our current diet and living conditions, it’s estimated that half of the population is lacking sufficient glutathione levels. They can’t fight off these toxins.

What Happens to Your Glutathione Levels

Glutathione levels can drop as much as 35% thanks to aging, physical stress and exercise. As glutathione is so closely linked to the body’s energy, this decrease in glutathione causes an energy decrease as well as the remaining glutathione is used for more critical jobs. The remaining glutathione is needed to fight off free radicals to prevent waste from building up, preventing the body’s cells from working properly, and the body’s cells don’t absorb vital nutrients. In this catabolic state, the body begins to break down.

Glutathione in Your Diet

It’s important to support the glutathione levels in the body, but it’s not obvious how to build up stores. Glutathione is produced by the body’s cells. To raise levels of glutathione, you must stimulate the body to produce it. This is done by consuming the building blocks of glutathione through some vitamins and nutritional supplements.  The best way to ensure the body has sufficient glutathione levels is through the consumption of direct glutathione supplements, such as GSH Ignite .

Supplements that lead to increases in glutathione are beneficial for everyone. Even individuals in good health can prevent future diseases and health concerns by raising glutathione levels. Young people especially can benefit by taking glutathione supplements as there will be greater health benefits over time as free radicals are constantly prevented from causing harm over years. However, while healthy adults benefit from glutathione supplements, those who are suffering from a medical condition have a more dramatic reaction to the antioxidant. Glutathione has created impressive results in regard to AIDS, Parkinson’s disease and cancer. High glutathione levels actually allow the body to heal itself.

The body produces glutathione, so taking a glutathione supplement to lead to this production does not create side effects or any dangers. Even healthy individuals lose glutathione stores as the body works to fight off the mercury, cigarette smoke and countless other toxins in the air. Supplements at any level of health are beneficial as you might be actively working to prevent diseases thought to be caused by aging, but truly caused by expose to free radicals over time.

Copyright 2010 LifeHealthSecrets

Building Strength & Explosive are Critical to Peak Athletic Performance

Compare two athletes of the exact same body size and build, who have followed the same training regimen – they don’t necessarily have the same power, speed or explosive capacity. Why? Once athletes attain a certain level of strength and stamina, the difference in their capabilities comes down to their bodies’ bio-electric current flow. The stronger the current flow, the stronger the body, and the more explosive power and strength you have access to.

Bio-electric current, also known as cellular zeta-potential, is the movement of electrons through your cells and consequently, through your body. The moving electron is literally the catalyst for the chemistry of life – a body completely stripped of moving electrons is a dead body. Current is especially important to athletes because it feeds the nerves which then feed the muscles. More current = more explosive power, when all else is equal. However, the rigorous training athletes undergo tends to deplete current, and if they allow a deficit to build over time, eventually their bodies become depleted and their explosive power diminishes. The younger athletes with the stronger current win because they haven’t yet exhausted their systems.

A strong electron transfer system, along with an abundant supply of electron donors, is important to the athlete because it strengthens cellular respiration and cellular charge (membrane potential) – both of which are essential to explosive power and strength.

First, let’s look at why cellular respiration is important. Just like you have the lungs, you have 60-100 trillion small lungs in your body – your cells. If those cells are ‘breathing’ at their optimum capacity, then they can increase ATP production, providing you with more energy for explosive power, to move your muscles. The best way to increase cellular respiration? By increasing current, or the supply and transfer of electrons.

If you’ve taken the time to do a bit of research, then you know there’s a dilemma all athletes face when they’re training: the harder you work out and the more ATP you produce, the more electron-robbing free radicals your body produces, and the faster your cells and DNA become damaged by oxidative stress. Taking a supplement like creatine to increase cellular respiration just makes the problem worse – your body ramps up ATP production without any means of defending its cells against the increased free radical load. Not only does a high free radical load decrease your performance in the medium and long term, it also leads to premature aging.

This is why glutathione supplementation is so important. Glutathione solves the athlete’s dilemma by allowing cellular respiration to increase while protecting cells against free radicals. Glutathione is one of your body’s most powerful electron donors –so powerful, in fact, that we literally can’t survive without it. That’s why our bodies produce it internally. However, as we get older, from as early as 20 years old, our internal glutathione levels begin to drop by as much as 35%. That means that your body slows ATP production as well, to protect against increased free radicals. Remember, ATP is the energy your muscles need for power and explosive strength. By dealing with the free radicals from within the cell, glutathione permits ATP to increase naturally. Greater cellular respiration = more explosive power and maximum strength for athletes.

So is the answer just to take a glutathione supplement? Not so fast. Remember, there are two aspects to the body’s bio-electrical current: cellular respiration and cellular charge (the sodium potassium pump). Cell charge is the second element you need for explosive power and strength. When cellular charge is low, metabolic waste accumulates and cellular respiration is impeded. If this isn’t dealt with, then the cell’s osmotic pressure become so weak that it can no longer expel its own waste and old body fluids, and edema or water retention occurs. The cell has trouble pulling in nutrients and becomes congested. If you don’t increase cell charge, then glutathione supplementation is ineffective, or minimally effective at best, because the cell can’t even pull in the nutrients it needs to function. By strengthening cellular charge, metabolic wastes are efficiently removed and cellular respiration can increase.

So how can an athlete increase current, and by extension increase both cellular respiration and charge?

GSH-Ignite was formulated specifically to address these issues. By providing the body with an ample supply of bio-recognizable electrons, and using proprietary means to transfer and move those electrons throughout the body, GSH-Ignite allows athletes to achieve greater levels of explosive power and strength than they could through training alone. GSH-Ignite strengthens the body’s current and promotes healthy glutathione levels while also increasing cellular charge. The effect? Maximum strength and more explosive power.

Copyright 2010 Elite Sports and Fitness.com

Understanding the oxidative system will provide us with the first method for increasing cellular energy. For cellular respiration to occur, oxygen must be drawn into the cells, where it’s used to produce energy (if you want to get specific, the mitochondria in our cells use it as a hydrogen acceptor during ATP production to produce water). How is oxygen drawn into the cell? One means is through the sodium potassium pump, which is what creates a cell’s ‘electrical charge’. The electrons around the outer membrane and inner nucleus of the cell, going in opposite directions, draw in the oxygen by means of diffusion.  So, a cell’s electrical charge controls the amount of oxygen that can be drawn in, and is in part responsible for how much energy your cells can produce.

This provides us with the first method of increasing cellular energy: increase a cell’s electrical charge. Note that electrical charge is also responsible for the removal of metabolic waste from the cell. If a cell’s charge is low, then metabolic waste accumulates and hinders cellular respiration. If things slow down enough, edema or water retention occurs – the cell’s osmotic pressure become so weak that it loses the ability to expel waste and old body fluids. When a cell’s charge is strengthened, metabolic wastes can be properly disposed of and cellular respiration increased.

The second method for increasing cellular energy can be understood through the reductive system. While oxygen is vital to cellular respiration, it also ‘oxidizes’ the cells, producing harmful free radicals that can damage cell function, respiration and DNA.  Reductive enzymes – with glutathione being the main SOD reductive enzyme – are what protect the cell from these free radicals. When a cell doesn’t have enough glutathione, it attempts to decrease ATP production so as to minimize the free radical damage. Therefore, increasing glutathione provides us with the second method to increase cellular energy. By increasing glutathione, you balance oxidation with reduction, and allow ATP to increase creating ATP energy, thereby increasing your body’s cellular energy.

A thorough understanding of these two approaches to increasing cellular energy leads to understanding how two of Life Health Secrets’ supplements work. Protein Extreme Energy functions to increase cellular electron loads and therefore cellular charge – it adopts the first method for increasing cellular energy. GSH-Ignite adopts the second method – by encouraging healthy glutathione levels it allows ATP production to increase. As such, Protein Extreme Energy and GSH-Ignite take complementary routes to achieving the same goal – enhanced cellular respiration, leading to enhanced whole body energy for life.

Copyright 2009 LifeHealthSecrets