The question, "Why use Glutathione" is incorrect. Glutathione's ultimate benefits are specifcally related to the Glutathione produced nautrally by your body's normal processes. Taking man-made Glutathione without stimulating the natural production of it invaribly reduces the outcome and purpose of supplementing in the first place.

Why Glutathione and Immunocal? Because living with pain, physical dysfunction and disease is not normal.

 The average human is born without body aches, headaches, stomach aches and pain. The idea that you simply have to “live with it,” is wrong thinking born of a society obsessed with self-medication.
     If you really think about the human body, it is an amazing machine full of carefully balanced interactive organic systems, each one designed to work with and balance the others.
     Take stomach acid for example, outside the body it would eat through most substances yet the stomach not only contains it without damage but utilizes it to produce the fuel and energy the body needs for good health.

Why then are we seeing a steady increase in ill health and degenerative disease?
Think of the human body, just for a moment, as a barrel. When first born the barrel is empty and clean. Then through everyday living, exposure to pollutants in the air, water, and processed food, consumption of alcohol, smoking, over the counter medications, elicit drugs, and prescription medications the barrel fills up and eventually can not hold anymore and overflows.

It is at this “overflow point,” that medical professionals start to see patients with everything from chronic and unexplained pain and illnesses, to degenerative disease, and depression.

This is not a new idea; it is in fact what has fueled the natural health industry boom in the last 20 to 30 years. It has resulted in the production of  air purifiers, water purifiers, supplements to detoxify almost every major organ or system in the body, as well as some medically based procedures such as Allergy Elimination and Chelation, just to name a few.

So with all the products and services available to “empty the barrel” why do we continue to see an increase in chronic illness and disease?

In a report released by CDC National Center for Health Statistics* half of Americans are taking at least one prescription medication and one in six are taking three or more prescription medications. The report goes on to say,

“Adult use of antidepressants almost tripled between 1988-1994 and 1999-2000. Ten percent of women 18 and older and 4 percent of men now take antidepressants.”

The report also found that although this problem has crossed ethnic boundaries it is not limited to one ethnic group or age group, according to the findings:

“Three times as many white adults as black or Mexican adults took antidepressants…

Boys were prescribed drugs to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) twice as often as girls, but antidepressants were prescribed to boys and girls at the same rates.”

Some of the most commonly prescribed antidepressants have been shown to cause side-effects such as aggression, anxiety, insomnia, delusions, blurred vision, inability to concentrate, tremors, nausea, repetitive thoughts, paranoia, and the list goes on.
     The most common solutions to unwanted side-effects of these drugs is to change the dosage, switch to another drug, or simply prescribe a second or third medication to alleviate the side-effect of the first which then introduces a new host of potential side-effects.
     Remember the barrel? All of these solutions simply contribute to the already overflowing barrel and compound the problem. This makes it more difficult to determine the actual cause of a person’s health problems.
     If you go back to the human body in its original form and design, keeping in mind that it is a complex system of carefully balanced inter-working systems, now add in all of the pollutants and drugs that the body wasn’t designed to absorb or filter and you can begin to see why the increase in bodily dysfunction, illness and a variety of non-optimum health situations.

So what can be done about it?
And how can someone already experiencing the side affects of anti-depressants, empty the barrel safely? The answer is, believe it nor not, very simple...Glutathione.
     This little amino acid is a naturally occurring substance in the body. However scientists have noted that over time Glutathione diminishes in the body. And that has shown to increase the aging process and the occurrence of disease.
     When Glutathione first hit the consumer market it was touted as the “fountain of youth” and was administered artificially in clinics across the country as an anti-aging treatment. However this was short lived as it became apparent that introducing man-made Glutathione had limited affects.

Then a breakthrough! A way to supplement the body to naturally produce and increase Glutathione levels.

What does this mean exactly?
Glutathione produced naturally has three vital functions:

  1. It functions as an antioxidant.
  2. It is a vital component to the immune system response,
  3. It acts as a detoxifying agent in the body.

In essence, naturally raising the Glutathione levels in the body supercharges the body’s natural ability to “empty the barrel.” And since this supplement comes from a food source, the body is designed to absorb and utilize it without side-effects.
     Now, no one is advocating that you simply stop taking your prescription medications.**
     However, under the supervision of a licensed medical professional there is a way to safely taper off these harmful antidepressants gradually, while taking this supplement, and in the process allow your body to utilize its own natural defense systems to improve health and repair damage to your systems without harmful side-effects.

There is hope.
Just think, if you could safely reduce your anti-depressants without side-effects and improve your overall health and energy levels, you’d have won half the battle to empty the barrel.
     Because the body must make Glutathione, the best support your body can get in producing it is Immunocal. If you have your doctor's approval and supervision to use Immunocal as part of your drug detox and/or tapering process, click here to order at a 25% to 40% discount.

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* Health, United States, 2004, With Chartbook on Trends in the Health of Americans. 513 pp. (PHS) 2004-1232. GPO stock number is 017-022-01575-7. This report may be purchased from the Government Printing Office, Health, United States, 2004, Homepage

* The New York Times > Washington > Americans Relying More on Prescription Drugs, December 3, 2004, By ROBERT PEAR

**Nothing on this site either advises, advocates, recommends, or diagnosis any illness or treatment thereof. Any action taken by an individual should only be done under the care of a licencesed medical professional.