Glutathione and Muscle Recovery

Submitted by support on Tue, 04/24/2012 - 01:34

Glutathione and Muscle Recovery

One of the most important variables in athletic training is muscle recovery (click here for more information). Whether from regular workouts; performance capacity or recovery from injury muscle recovery is a huge issue. The ability to recovery and the speed of recovery are always looked at.

Consequently, knowing what impedes recovery as well as what enhances recovery and why are important issues.

Glutathione is a molecule that is made within every cell of your body. It has to be made inside the cell as there are no transport systems to carry it into the cell. Thus, while glutathione is often included in “muscle recovery” supplements - it is of no value and only gives you expensive bowel movements.

Why is glutathione (GSH) important to athletes? Well, let’s look at some of the reasons:

Anti-inflammatory
Reduces recovery time
Increases & protects cellular energy (only known molecule to protect mitochondria – the organelle that creates cellular fuel/energy)
Regulates nitric oxide (involved in expansion /contraction of arterial blood flow)
Transports amino acids into and around the cell (required to make collagens for
muscle building)
Master anti-oxidant or Detoxification molecule for every cell in the body
Enhances Immune system (required for both the development and activation of the immune system)
Enhances cognitive functioning (increases attentiveness, alertness & focus)
Enhances cardio functioning (every cell requires GSH to function)
Enhances lung capacity (every red blood cell requires sufficient GSH to take on and release both oxygen and carbon dioxide)

- Some additional aspects:

Protects DNA from becoming cancerous
Chelator – eliminates toxic metals from blood
Regulates, either directly or indirectly, all hormones
Involved in all liver detoxification processes
Only real anti-aging molecule (it not protects but promotes production of telomeres – these die normally throughout life and when they reach a given level we die – GSH actually promotes recreation of them)

Perhaps even more important than knowing all the different functions that glutathione is involved in, it is more important to realize that our need for it in today’s society has increased dramatically and yet we are producing less of it than ever before.

So what do we do. Well we do have a composition patent that has all the required molecules in the right ratios to promote glutathione production in the body, on average 292% more within a 2 month period. Thus, it is NOT glutathione but rather a glutathione accelerator. That is amazing.

Athletes are repeatedly finding that it has amazing benefits in both recovery speed reduction as well as in the performance capacity.

References:

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