Recently, I interviewed Dr. Nayan Patel, and we discussed the role of glutathione as a master antioxidant, its significance for individuals with thyroid conditions, and its impact on autoimmune disorders like Hashimoto’s and Graves’ disease, the benefits of N-acetylcysteine (NAC) for boosting glutathione levels, the limitations of intravenous glutathione, why a balanced diet and proper supplementation are crucial, and more. If you would prefer to listen to the interview you can access it by Clicking Here.
Dr. Eric Osansky:
I’m excited to be joined by Dr. Nayan Patel, as we are going to have a comprehensive chat about glutathione. Really excited about this conversation. Let me go ahead and dive into Dr. Patel’s bio here.
Dr. Nayan Patel is a sought-after pharmacist, wellness expert, and thought leader in his industry. He has been working with physicians since 1999 to custom develop medication for their clients and design a patient-specific drug and nutrition regimen. He has been the pharmacist of choice to celebrities, CEOs, and physicians themselves. Not included in this bio, you have a book as well, so check out The Glutathione Revolution.
Dr. Nayan Patel:
That’s right. Thank you.
Dr. Eric:
Thank you so much for joining us, Dr. Patel.
Dr. Nayan:
It’s a pleasure. Thank you for inviting me.
Dr. Eric:
Really excited to talk about glutathione, something that a lot of practitioners use in their practice in different forms. As far as understanding it and the general public, it’s more common, but you’re going to go into detail.
For those who are unfamiliar with glutathione, can you talk about what it is? Why is it considered to be the master antioxidant?
Dr. Nayan:
Absolutely. Hopefully, you will get it by the end of the day today. The reason is because it is the most abundant peptide or molecule or any kind of component that is produced in the human body. It is ubiquitous with anything else that you can think about. Next to water, glutathione is the most abundant molecule there is. The reason that it’s produced there is because of all the things that it does for us.
You just mentioned antioxidant. In the simplest terms, glutathione is a tri-peptide, which means it’s three amino acids coming together. Glycine, glutamine, and cysteine. It is one of the simplest forms of a peptide, so to speak. The simplicity is not something to be undertaken because the work it does, it’s way more than any other molecule inside your body.
Dr. Eric:
Thanks for the explanation. I need to ask you: What motivated you to start doing extensive research on glutathione, let alone write an entire book on glutathione?
Dr. Nayan:
If there is one thing that I can do that can change the complete course of a trajectory, what would that be in medicine? When I was doing my research, everything led to me asking, “What can we do to reduce oxidative stress? What can we do to help our body heal from inside? How could we keep the body clean from inside?”
The body produces an abundance of glutathione. We have known of this product for about 140+ years. The thing is, nobody has ever figured out how to enhance it inside your body. Wait a second. We know something is good for us. We know this is the best thing there is. How come nobody has ever figured out how to get it inside your body?
Let’s take it on. I have some spare time. I have nothing else to do. My business was not doing great anyway. We started working on this project very early on. Tried to figure out how we can get this inside our body.
Dr. Eric:
Okay. I’m glad you did. We wouldn’t be having this conversation otherwise. You wouldn’t have been helping all these other people with your research. Thanks for releasing the book.
Maybe starting off with food sources, what sources of food can you get at least a precursor of glutathione? You mentioned some of the precursors, like glycine, cysteine, glutamine. Those are amino acids. I’ll let you take over from here.
Dr. Nayan:
Before I talk about sources and where we get it from, I really want people to understand why we need this thing. It’s the most abundant molecule. Why do we need it?
The why is what will help you understand what to do now. If there is no why, people won’t do it. I will explain the why first if that’s okay.
The why is because glutathione has two purposes inside your body. It detoxifies or neutralizes all the free radicals that you’re exposed to. If you’re breathing, you’re consuming oxygen, which is a free radical. At a low concentration, it is great for you because it is a source of energy and helps your body heal from inside.
But excess amounts of oxygen can also cause what we call reactive oxygen species, and those are toxic to the human body. The body produces glutathione to quench all those free radicals, so oxygen stays low enough.
There is a second source of free radicals coming to the body, like sun, pollution, chemicals we ingest, chemical reactions that happen inside the body. Every single reaction that happens inside your body produces a byproduct. The byproducts are all reactive oxygen species. When you break down amino acids or proteins, it also creates what we call a reactive nitrogen species.
All those things have to be neutralized every single day because you eat and breathe almost every single day. You have to have a system in your body to neutralize those things. That’s the first function. Sleeping, you’re awake, doesn’t really matter. Your body is working for you.
The second part, which nobody talks about, which is as much or even more important, is it helps detoxify your liver. Your liver is the garbage disposal of your body, trying to process every single thing and dumping into the kidneys or your intestines. You can just get rid of it from your body. The processing requires chemicals. The most important one is glutathione because it helps bind to all these chemicals and hopefully get rid of them.
Those two processes are very critical for us. That’s why we need to make sure our glutathione levels are high at all times. I don’t care if you’re 20 or two years old or 100 years old. Our needs are not going to decrease as we age. Our needs are going to be the same no matter what.
If the needs are the same, and the body cannot produce enough, we have to make sure that we are doing everything possible to give our body a fighting chance to improve the levels, so it can keep our body clean from inside.
The question that you asked me earlier about how do we get glutathione in there? The #1 choice is always going to be food. Which foods can I eat to get the glutathione that I need?
Your body actually does not have the receptors to accept glutathione by itself as is. That means we have to consume all the building blocks, which are the amino acids, and the body has to make it from there. The foods that have glycine, glutamine, and cysteine are going to be great for it.
Let me tell you one more thing. Our body has enough glutamine and glycine coming from all the food we eat. The issue is we are not getting enough cysteine in our diet. If you just put in your favorite search engine “cysteine-rich foods,” you are going to get a list of, if you’re vegan or vegetarian or a meat eater, doesn’t matter. They have four choices in every category you have to consume those products to get the cysteine in your diet.
Cysteine is actually getting used up by your body to produce glutathione. That’s the easiest way to do it.
Before you go into the diet, first of all, I would suggest reducing toxins. Reduce exposure to excessive sunlight. Reduce exposure to pollution. Reduce exposure to toxic chemicals that you may ingest knowingly or unknowingly. Alcohol depletes glutathione levels. Smoking can deplete glutathione levels. Avoid toxins. Reducing all these things can also reduce the need for glutathione to let your body use it for other purposes.
Dr. Eric:
Makes sense. The two main purposes of glutathione are to help with free radicals, essentially reducing oxidative stress, and also detoxifying the liver, so that makes sense that you want to do as much as you can to reduce your toxic burden as well as excess sun exposure and some other things you mentioned.
Food sources. Mainly focusing on cysteine-rich foods rather than food sources of glutamine and glycine, correct?
Dr. Nayan:
That’s right. In fact, we’re doing some brain trials. What we are finding out is even at the 70-year-old person, they have an abundance of glutamine. What we are suspecting is glutamine might be an issue as well, if it’s in the brain. Having a cysteine-rich diet can actually bind those excess glutamines and get them out of the body. Hopefully, that’s a good thing. Cysteine-rich foods is what we recommend most of the time.
Dr. Eric:
For those who have an increase in intestinal permeability with a leaky gut, would glutamine be beneficial for those people with gut support?
Dr. Nayan:
Absolutely. Even though glutamine may be too toxic in your brain, not enough glutamine can cause all kinds of leaky gut issues and permeability issues or cells not developing correctly. Having a glutamine source between 1-5g a day, if you have the problem, is a great idea.
Keep in mind if you can enhance the glutathione levels in the body, it will do the same exact thing as well.
Dr. Eric:
Are there any other symptoms associated with glutathione deficiency?
Dr. Nayan:
What you mentioned earlier was oxidative stress. That’s the key component of what we are trying to reduce with glutathione. If you look at oxidative stress, what are the symptoms? 80% of all diseases known to mankind are related to oxidative stress.
The key is do we want to wait until we get diseased, or can we stop it from getting into the cracks of it? The idea is we are not looking for symptoms at this point. All we’re looking for is do I optimize my lifestyle to the point that I am making sure that my glutathione levels are going to be high at all times?
If we are looking for symptoms specifically, by the time you get diagnosed with, for example, having high insulin resistance or high triglyceride levels or Alzheimer’s or cancer or heart disease or anything else, it’s too far gone.
The goal is to treat the problems or avoid the problems. If you want to avoid the problems, then you have to work on your lifestyle and your habits.
If that’s the case, do I take glutathione supplements from the day I am born? The answer is no. I’m not saying that either. You cannot supplement your way out of all your problems. Having a better lifestyle is what I’m advocating. I want to make sure people are reducing exposure to known toxic chemicals and pollution and gas, things like that.
The second part is having a healthier diet that encompasses all kinds of amino acids, not just cysteine, although cysteine is part of one of the most important ones. By all means, cysteine is not one of the essential amino acids to take every single day. Having essential amino acids coming from your eggs or meats or vegetables, having good source of proteins that your body can clear out and use the amino acids from inside is a key component.
Symptoms-wise, if you really want to call out a couple of symptoms, at the age of 30 is where we first start seeing lower glutathione levels. That is the first time we see the body get fatigued and tired. In your 20s, you’re never tired, ever. At 30, all of a sudden, you’re not feeling fantastic anymore. The fatigue kicks in.
Sleep patterns are not ideal. These are all oxidative stress markers.
You have liver spots. Your skin may get discolorations. You can see visible signs. The forgetfulness kicks in. Keep in mind 20% of all the oxygen that you breathe in goes to your brain first. The brain is only 2% of the whole body weight, yet it consumes 20% of all oxygen. Your brain has the highest amount of oxidative stress in your whole body. After that is the liver. Then other organs. The first one is the brain.
If your brain is getting taxed or has too much oxidative stress, it will show signs of memory issues and fatigue. You are not feeling yourself.
All those signs and symptoms are not great, but don’t wait for those. Start doing things today to help yourself.
Dr. Eric:
Makes sense. Even if you’re feeling great, you could still have lower glutathione levels and have potentially a glutathione deficiency. The audience consists of mostly people with thyroid conditions, many of whom have autoimmune conditions. When you have autoimmunity, that’s associated with oxidative stress. Based on that, can we assume that people with autoimmune conditions of different kinds are more likely to need glutathione than others?
Dr. Nayan:
Patients with autoimmunity, their levels are actually below zero. It doesn’t exist in those people. They are constantly deprived of glutathione being available because the body is trying to fight a ghost. Patients with autoimmune conditions, their needs are extremely high. We have made a product just for those people with a higher concentration. Normally, I do not prescribe that to anybody else besides people with the needs that are very high. People with severe oxidative stress, especially patients with autoimmune conditions, their needs are extremely high.
The issue is if they have not had glutathione for a while, the body has become toxic. If I give a high dose of glutathione from the get-go, the patient will have a lot of detox reactions. The first month, I always say to go slow. Let’s slowly build up your levels, so you have no side effects from the product.
Once they’re better, they can tolerate some levels, and they can go to a higher concentration. They can see the benefits in less than six weeks.
The idea behind this is that it’s not going to get rid of autoimmune conditions at all. Autoimmunity is preventing your body from staying clean and agile all the time. Autoimmune conditions don’t stop there. The body is trying to fight this issue. Doesn’t know what it’s fighting. Opportunistic infections and diseases creep in again.
I want to make sure people understand that autoimmune conditions are not the single focal point, but they are the gateway to major illnesses in the future as well. Having something like glutathione or a healthier lifestyle to support what our body needs is going to have a fighting chance to keep the conditions under control. Hopefully, reduce the load down, so the body can handle it.
Dr. Eric:
Okay. Chronic stress. Does that have a negative impact on glutathione?
Dr. Nayan:
When people talk about stress, there are two types of stressors. One is oxidative, as we have discussed. The second one is endocrine stress, which comes from cortisol and adrenaline. Those are regulated by the adrenal glands right above your kidneys.
I wish our body was compartmentalized. That means nobody knows what the other parts are doing. Our body internally is all one giant fluid. It is crazy how things work inside the body. All those liquids are mixed together.
When it comes to stressors, yes. Even though they are causing excessive cortisol production or adrenaline coming into the body, it has a profound impact on inflammation. It has a profound impact on cytokines, which are known products that help keep our body in check, like all the interleukins 2 and 12. I don’t want to bore everybody. The cytokines are released by the body to mitigate some of these problems. When we have those things, our body is in chaos.
At that time, the need for glutathione also increases. Regardless of what stress you have, oxidative or endocrine or physical or mental, all those things will deplete glutathione levels. Some more than others, but they all have an effect on reducing glutathione levels. Having a proper lifestyle and diet and supplementation to improve glutathione levels is key in managing any of these conditions.
Dr. Eric:
Testing. What would you say is the best way to measure glutathione? Doing glutathione in the blood? There is also pyroglutamate through urine testing.
Dr. Nayan:
When you’re measuring pyroglutamate in the urine, that’s part of the metabolites. It’s not a true indicator of how much glutathione you have in the body. It’s an assumption of how much you have. I don’t do too much urine testing at all.
I do serum testing. Even the serum testing, there is a drawback there. By the time you draw the blood and put it in a tube and ship it to the lab, before it leaves the office, it’s already been oxidized. What you’re really measuring is the total glutathione levels and total offset glutathione levels.
In theory, you would assume that if you’re otherwise healthy, 50% is oxidized and 30% is reduced inside your body.
If you have autoimmune conditions or metabolic disorders or cancer, then what you have is too much glutathione and very little of the reduced form. It’s very hard to measure that part.
The true measurements of glutathione can come in lab settings or research settings, where you can draw blood, put the blood sample in the machine right away, and get results immediately. That is the only way to get accurate results from tests.
We have done this part. We have done the study at the university hospital. Our study was med students and some professors. Most of the med students have a good ratio, 50/50, of reduced versus oxidized glutathione.
The professors have way too much oxidized glutathione in the body. That tells us that even though they are healthy, they are professors at a med school, the oxidized glutathione is much higher than everybody else. Something is better than nothing.
If you test, please test your blood levels. Don’t measure the whole blood. Glutathione in the plasma doesn’t have a good track record. Make sure you measure the red blood cells (RBC) level of glutathione. That is the true indicator of how much glutathione you should have in your body.
Dr. Eric:
Okay. You don’t pay much attention to urine testing. Blood, more RBC levels of glutathione.
How about the impact of genetics? Having genetic polymorphisms, which are common genetic variations. That can definitely play a role in who might need more glutathione compared to someone else.
Dr. Nayan:
Yeah. Thank god genetic testing has gotten cheaper as the years go by. 15 years ago, used to cost $5,000 for a full genome testing. It’s gone down to $500 or less nowadays. It’s gotten very inexpensive, relatively to what it used to be.
Because of that, over the last 15 years, the data has come out as to how many percent of people have gene mutations, what we call SNPs, that are not either able to produce glutathione, or their need for glutathione is extremely high. The gene SNPs are telling a lot of stories.
If you have a gene problem to begin with, like they are born with it, early on, you will get a deficiency of glutathione, and you will see signs and symptoms of spectrum disorder most of the time. People either have autism or Asperger’s. Not all autistic or Asperger’s patients are glutathione deficient, but a lot of them are.
If they are early on, you can figure out the issue. As we age, we get exposure to cosmic rays, UV lights, foods we eat, some of the gene mutations are happening afterwards. Those gene mutations can change the course of how much glutathione we actually need or that the body is able to produce.
For example, MTHFR is a common gene mutation that we see in a lot of patients. It’s not a gene mutation where your body cannot produce glutathione. What happens is because of MTHFR, there are not enough methyl groups, so you can’t detoxify a lot of chemicals. The job of glutathione becomes extremely difficult, and the need for it increases dramatically. Even though your body can produce, it cannot keep up with the demand.
If the audience is interested in that part, I would strongly suggest working with a physician who knows gene SNPs. I work with a couple of doctors myself. I am doing a presentation to a physicians group next week on gene mutations and how it’s affecting glutathione levels.
The more we are finding out what the gene SNPs are doing, the better off we can prepare ourselves. We can’t change the mutations, but we can change how we respond to them. Working with a physician is critical.
Typically, if you do a full genome mapping, it will take you months to go through each and every gene mutation to see what should I do with each one? It’s not a one-hour visit or 10-minute visit. It’s probably over time, maybe 5-10 visits to figure out every single thing about your body.
Dr. Eric:
Let’s talk about supplements. That’s a great interest to listeners. There are different forms of glutathione supplements.
There are other ways to administer glutathione, such as IV. A lot of people get IV glutathione. I’d love to know your thoughts on IV glutathione as well, like liposomal glutathione. Even taking something as simple as NAC (n-acetyl cysteine), which is a form of cysteine, as you were talking about earlier when discussing food sources.
Dr. Nayan:
Supplementation is a very confused market. There is a lot of marketing going on, a lot of hype going on with not too much data behind it to back it up. I want to make sure the consumers are getting information and learning from here to see. Become a skeptic for yourself, and question every single thing. That way, you know you are making informed decisions.
Just to let you know, first of all, your body has no receptor to take glutathione as is. In the last 140+ years that we have known about glutathione, there is one FDA-approved product to improve glutathione levels. That is NAC. It’s cysteine given in a capsule form. The body takes cysteine, combines it with glycine and glutamine, and produces glutathione. It works great.
As we age, our body is not able to keep up with the demand of gene mutations. There is always going to be a need for supplementation. Guess what? Let me inject it into the body. If I can get an injection into the veins, my job is done.
A study was done in 1991, where they gave 2g of IV infusion of glutathione. What they found out was 100% of the glutathione was still in the plasma only. Nothing entered the blood cells. Zero. What happened then was they checked further out. Where is this plasma glutathione going? In 5-15 minutes, everything was in the urine. Really, IV glutathione is actually not sustaining the glutathione levels for long term.
They continued the study for another few hours. What they saw was the body broke down the glutathione into various amino acids. NAC was sitting in the blood a couple hours later.
What the research basically concluded was when you infuse glutathione, the body breaks it down and absorbs the cysteine. The cysteine is being used to produce glutathione again. That is the conclusion the researchers came to. That was the research on IV.
Even today, it is very popular. I, as a pharmacist, am guilty of doing that as well. For 20 years, I was also making glutathione to sell to doctors’ offices to infuse into patients. That was the only option I had.
The second option that came to me was in 1999. Can you make some liposome form of glutathione? The researchers that hold the patents for this technology already had drugs in the market through the FDA approval process. They gave us the technology and asked me to make nutraceuticals like Vitamin C or glutathione or CoQ10 and things like that. Sure enough, we made some products and gave them back to the researchers. He sold the product to some other company.
One thing he could not sell off was the glutathione because it did not work. They couldn’t figure out what was happening. It worked four weeks later but not right away. Something else needs to be happening.
In 2011, University of Texas did a study on 26 kids. They gave them a liposomal form of glutathione, both oral and transdermal. What they found out was again, same thing. Nothing was in the blood cells. 100% was in the plasma. The plasma will break it down into amino acids. We saw an increase in cysteine, glutamine, glycine, and other amino acids.
The researchers came to the same exact conclusion. The body does not absorb glutathione. It breaks it down, absorbs the cysteine, and later uses it to produce glutathione again.
All the research that is out there tells the same thing. When I started doing my research, I needed to figure this out. If the body does not have the receptor to accept glutathione, how do we get it inside the body?
We figured out that your body has a receptor to accept dextrose sugar molecules. What I did was took the sugar molecules, made them into a ring structure, and put inside the ring a glutathione molecule. The body thinks this is a sugar. It takes it. inside is glutathione. I put a Trojan horse inside the dextrin molecule.
Dextrin has no properties of glucose levels in your body. It’s not for that purpose. It’s a simple carb, but it doesn’t raise blood glucose levels at all. That’s our technology.
When we discovered the technology for the first time in 2007, it was too premature. Now what? How much do I give it to you? How often? How am I going to do a study? It took me three or four years to figure that portion out.
We figured out I can give it twice a day, 100mg. I got the results I was looking for. That’s what we did.
How fast can I see the results? The absorption through your skin was within 15-20 minutes. At 45 minutes, we saw blood levels rise to high normal into the blood cells. That’s how we figured out. This was nuts.
It took me another 13 years to figure out what conditions can I give it to? How often? In all my research before I released it to the public, all I was trying to figure out is if I improve glutathione levels, does it reduce oxidative stress levels? If I reduce oxidative stress levels, does it trickle down to all the major diseases?
I have diabetes. Can I reduce blood sugar levels down? Just because I reduce blood sugar levels doesn’t mean the insulin load is gone. You have a huge resistance problem still. You will still die of some complications of diabetes.
My goal has always been to reduce oxidative stress down, and if I do that on one end, is there a positive impact on major diseases?
We have a couple of published articles. By reducing oxidative stress levels down, in fact, it will improve your immune system to get rid of infection, like bacteria. We already published that study.
Our goal has always been to not go after bad data. If I can fix the problem on the far back, can I see a positive impact on what the problem you’re facing today is? Yes, we can.
Some things take time. Some things may take two days, and some things may take six months.
Regardless, oxidative stress, if I can reduce it down, has a profound impact on every disease that is linked to it. That’s the technology that we have. The topical spray, that’s what we use it for right now. We launched the company in 2020. It was bad timing. The whole world was shut down, not just us. We just are back in business as of last year.
Dr. Eric:
Wonderful. Sorry about the timing. I’m glad you persisted. It’s great that it’s available.
It’s a topical spray. With both IV glutathione and liposomal glutathione, it sounds like the glutathione actually isn’t getting into the cell. It’s more that the body is utilizing the cysteine. Your product would be the most bioavailable, the topical spray. Next to that would be NAC rather than spending the money on IV glutathione or liposomal glutathione. They are both pricey compared to NAC.
Dr. Nayan:
Exactly. If you are going to take NAC, just Google “cysteine-rich foods” instead. Make that part of your daily routine. You can only take a supplement once or twice a day. The supplement works as food. The food you see, you will eat anyway, so you might at least eat some avocado or Brussels sprouts or chicken or turkey. They all have cysteine.
Dr. Eric:
Do you personally try to do as much through food? With the topical spray, do you use it consistently once or twice a day on a wellness basis?
Dr. Nayan:
Yes, I do. I am in the age group of 50+. My needs for glutathione will always be there. Today, I’m in better shape than I was in five years ago when I first started taking glutathione. I am in much better shape than I have ever been. I have too much energy. I travel close to 37 weeks out of the year. I’m always on the road. I’m never tired. I get frustrated sometimes because going through TSA Precheck can be frustrating. Besides that, my energy levels are always very high. I perform. I talk. I lecture. I’m always full of energy. I take it twice a day myself.
Besides that, I make sure my diet is full of amino acids that I need. There is nothing to replace diet. Please make sure that diet is good enough to get all your amino acids in. Then the supplementation is an extra bonus tool.
Dr. Eric:
Definitely agree with that. With supplements, can you take it with food? Do you take it away from food?
Dr. Nayan:
This is a topical product, so it doesn’t matter. Food has zero impact on it. In fact, since it’s topical, we always say to apply it on clean skin. Before you apply the product, make sure you clean the skin off. Make sure there is no debris in there. We want to make sure the product has as good a chance of getting inside your body without having to deal with some debris on your skin or dead skin cells.
Dr. Eric:
How about if someone takes NAC. I usually recommend taking NAC away from food. Is that necessary if someone took it with a meal?
Dr. Nayan:
It should be okay. NAC is very easily absorbed. I would not worry about NAC at all. You can take it with food or without food or with drinks, coffee and tea. They won’t be an issue.
Dr. Eric:
It’s not so much the bioavailability. Some say if you take it with other foods with protein, it will compete with the other amino acids. I’m not sure.
Dr. Nayan:
No. The bigger issue we have today more than anything else is the pH of your stomach. Most Americans today are taking some sort of products to reduce acid reflux. Antacids or some other form. Or drinking alkaline water and increasing the pH of your stomach.
The pH is supposed to be between 1-2 for protein. Then the enzymes to chop the protein off into various amino acids. If you’re taking alkaline water, if you’re taking antacids, the pH of your stomach is rising. Because of that rising pH, they can’t unfold the protein. If you cannot unfold the protein, you cannot chop down to absorb amino acids. That to me is a bigger issue than taking NAC with food.
Dr. Eric:
Okay. You want to have a lower pH for stomach acid. Very important for breaking things down.
Getting back to your product. You mentioned for autoimmunity, you start people slower. You said there is another product. It’s also a topical spray, but a higher potency?
Dr. Nayan:
I’m sorry to give a shameless plug to myself. The product name is Glutaryl. We have Glutaryl and Glutaryl+. The + version is 1.75x stronger than the regular stuff. I would say all the work I have done, every single thing I have done, is in the regular Glutaryl.
As you can imagine, I have patients that are suffering from chronic oxidative stress, which has led to multiple diseases or conditions that regular is not going to cut it for them. I had to make something stronger for them.
The stronger version is good for 3-6 months, maybe a year. After that, they all switch back to the regular one for maintenance. That’s all they need to maintain the levels high enough in your body.
Dr. Eric:
Okay. Anything else that you want to discuss when it comes to glutathione? Anything that I should have asked you that I didn’t ask you?
Dr. Nayan:
I think you were pretty thorough in terms of your questions. One thing I would want to let people know is if you read glutathione in oxidative stress, it will sound like this is better than snake oil. It is.
Keep in mind that it’s only as good as how you treat the rest of the body with the rest of the habits you have. If you have good habits to begin with, and you work on getting good habits, you work toward eating the right fruits and vegetables and everything necessary for your body to sustain life. Having glutathione levels to reduce oxidative stress, I believe that’s the best chance we have to improve our health span. Improving life span is only there if we can improve health span.
The question I get all the time is: Do you consider glutathione a longevity drug? I say that the true longevity drug was penicillin. Penicillin in the 40s raised the life expectancy of 40 years to 55 years singlehandedly. Not only can you get rid of infections. By all means, it’s not a longevity drug. All we did was improve the health span of the health of the human being.
I’m saying that glutathione is not a longevity drug, per se. It is definitely going to improve your health span. In fact, I do that part. There is a potential that we can live longer, healthier without being in a nursing home. That’s my hope.
Dr. Eric:
Wonderful. Dr. Patel, where can people find out more about you, learn more about your work? If they’re interested in purchasing the Glutathione product?
Dr. Nayan:
My website is AuroWellness.com. I spend a lot of time and energy in writing blogs. Please subscribe to my blog. Get yourself educated.
The idea behind this is I want to make sure that people make informed decisions for their life. I want to bring information to them. I am always doing some research. Anything new comes out in my database, so I will send it out through the newsletter. Subscribe to the newsletter. We send it 2-3 times a month. Hopefully, that’s good information for you to learn from.
Dr. Eric:
Really appreciate you taking the time to chat about glutathione. Really enjoyed this conversation, Dr. Patel.
Dr. Nayan:
Thank you very much.
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