The Role of Glutathione in Energy Production...

You've been told that glutathione increases energy on a cellular level. How does it do this? Since glutathione is not the actual fuel for the "engines" or "energy factories" of our cells, what part does it play in the creation of cellular energy?

These are questions we would all like answers to, but not if they make us feel like we're back in Chemistry 101!

Hopefully, what you read below will provide a non-technical explanation for these questions.

Oxidation is like a flame, wonderful when harnessed, dangerous when out of control. When we are young, the oxidation necessary for energy production is highly efficient with only a small amount of oxygen not utilized. Even this minor oxygen loss (1-3%) unfortunately results in the production of free radicals. And this is where glutathione comes in to neutralize those free radicals.

A one-to-three percent oxygen loss causing free-radicals production doesn't sound too bad, does it? But say you are no longer 20 years of age and correspondingly, your cellular mitochondria are not as efficient as they once were. More and more free radicals are generated in the oxidative energy process and they are, in turn, damaging the
mitochondria themselves.

The powerful antioxidant, glutathione, quenches a number of free radicals, including the highly dangerous hydroxyl radical by donating an electron. Glutathioneitself does not become a free radical even though it has given up an electron.

No wonder it is called the Master Antioxidant!
Now that it is quenched, the extremely harmful hydroxyl radical is halted from its real dirty work: generating other free radicals like peroxynitrite and the radicals of oxidized fats (lipids).

Glutathione has just halted a literal cascade of free radicals by quenching the hydroxyl free radical. But you need to know just what a favor glutathione has done for you in preventing peroxynitrite production.

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