YouTube video (Jan 16, 2025) by Shilpa Sayana, MD addressing health impacts of recent Los Angeles fires and offering practical advice to boost antioxidant defenses against smoke-related oxidative stress. Recommendations include eating more colorful fruits and vegetables and supplements such as buffered vitamin C, NAC (a glutathione precursor), and topical/oral glutathione products (e.g., Oral Wellness spray).
Hi everyone. It's been a really tough week in LA in January of 2025 due to the crazy fires we've had that have taken away property, destroyed lives, and put us all on the edge of high fight or flight response. A lot of patients have asked for advice on what they can take to protect their bodies during this time of high air particulates, especially from smoke exposure. As a functional medicine, MD things such as increasing your antioxidant levels would help. So eating more colorful fruits and vegetables and in the supplement world, things that could help our mitochore, which is a natural vitamin that has a lot of antioxidants in it, things like buffered vitamin C. It's just vitamin C to help increase your antioxidant level. One thing that I think could be very powerful is NAC and, and this is a precursor to glutathione, which is a master antioxidant, something you could consider taking, or you could take actual glutathione, which is made by Oral Wellness. And it's just something you spray on your body and rub in. So these are all ways you can increase your antioxidant level to mitigate the impacts of the oxidative impacts of the toxins from the recent week.
