Your Antioxidant System Needs THIS

Most antioxidants in your body work by donating one of their electrons to some damaged molecule. We call those free radicals. And this is oxidative stress, free radicals. You might have heard these terms antioxidants. Basically what it means is that your car rusts, your apple turns brown, your skin wrinkles from the sun damage and ultraviolet radiation. This is all free radical damage. So your body has its own system of antioxidants. You don't have to always get them from food, but you have a system and you need to get them from food like vitamin C and vitamin E and so forth. Glutathione is basically the last stop on this hot potato chain. So what happens is, let's say the vitamin C finds a free radical and gives one its electrons. Then the vitamin C is damaged and the vitamin E has to come on and protect that. And then it goes down this kind of hot potato handing off these hot potato free radicals until it gets to glutathione. And that's the final stop and then your body gets rid of it. The problem if you're depleting glutathione, you're going to have trouble with your antioxidant system and your detox system.