The REAL Reasons to Use Liposomal Glutathione for Mold Exposure

Have you ever been researching mold or mycotoxin illness and read or hear about liposomal glutathione? Wonder if it's legit, wonder if it helps and how it helps? I've been asked so many questions. I want to get into the top reasons why a liposomal glutathione product can be very useful for helping with mold mycotoxin-based illnesses. So the first thing to keep in mind is why glutathione generally? Well, one of the things is when we have exposure to mold and the toxins that mold put off, which are called mycotoxins. They're a biotoxin, and the ones from mold are called mycotoxins. You can't see them. They can come from your carpet, anywhere in your environment, any, you know, area that's gotten wet, et cetera. So we can literally be poisoned by these mycotoxins without ever even seeing them, sometimes not even smelling mold. And you can have that. Well, as our body deals with mycotoxins, we have all of these different ways to detoxify and eliminate them, but it puts a stress on our antioxidant/detoxification system, and it actually starts to deplete our supply of glutathione. Now, glutathione, we've done a ton of content on, but basically it is the core first-line antioxidant that we use in our body for protection against reactive oxygen species, inflammation, et cetera.

So if I'm dealing with mycotoxin and I'm dealing with it all the time, my body is going to certainly make some glutathione and put it out for my cells to use as an antioxidant and a detox support, but I'm going to have more demand from the mycotoxin than I have the ability to make enough glutathione to keep up. And so what happens is the presence of the mycotoxin exposure or detoxification causes me to use up more and I have a deficit in glutathione availability. The next thing is that when I have an increased burden of mycotoxin in the body, I have an increased need not only to create glutathione, but also an increased need to move those toxins through the body, run them through the detoxification pathways, and eliminate them. So I have the first 2 things we've talked about being a decrease in my available glutathione for all the good things it does and an increase in the stress on the system to get rid of this junk, the mycotoxins. Now, as we deplete our glutathione that is stored and we have an increase in mycotoxin coming in, we have this imbalance. And so while we're dealing with the mycotoxin coming in, we need to increase the glutathione availability. So This is where supplementing glutathione comes in so that we have enough glutathione to so-called keep up with the demand that's going on. Now, if you think of it that way, that I'm depleting it due to the exposure, I'm putting more stress on the system, part of which is run by glutathione because of exposure. Now I have to put more glutathione in than my body is used to making. And so I can kind of keep up and balance out. You can see why supplementing with glutathione wouldn't be a bad idea. Now, we I often get questions about and comments about glutathione that if you take glutathione by mouth, it will not absorb.

Now, that is true from a long time ago when they just synthesized glutathione, which is a tripeptide, and they put it in a powdered form in capsules and you took that, not much of that would absorb. But when you have a liposomal preparation, what it means is you have put that tripeptide of glutathione into a little envelope in a liposome and we take it by mouth, that's going to go in and the liposome is going to help the glutathione absorb in the GI tract. So, you know, for the people who haven't heard of these new updates, yes, plain glutathione doesn't absorb very well. Liposomal glutathione does absorb reasonably, and that's why we use it as an oral supplement. There is also a form that is usually in a non-liposomal that will absorb as well, and that is called acetyl glutathione. So it's not plain glutathione, it's acetyl glutathione. And those are the 2 forms by mouth that have been shown in the research to absorb at the level of the GI tract. Dry powder, powder in capsules, not going to absorb very much. Liposomal and acetyl glutathione will absorb, and they will be helpful in this situation of mold exposure and many other things. So when we're looking at that, then the other thing people will often say is, well, I went to a clinic and I specifically got glutathione by injection because I was told I would get more glutathione that way than if I took it by mouth, say a liposomal or acetyl glutathione. And here's the kind of balance you have to keep around injectable glutathione, because I've done thousands and thousands and thousands of injections of glutathione. I've done research with glutathione on humans. And what happens is you get a good bump because you're putting it right into the vein, but almost nobody is going to be injecting glutathione intravenously every single day. And so what we would use Injectable glutathione for is to sort of top off the system to fill the tank. So we might do nutrient infusion and then follow it with a glutathione infusion, and then orally on the days in between infusions, a person would still take an oral liposomal or maybe acetyl glutathione. The other thing that will come up just as far as people saying, "Well, what about this or that?" Would be breathing it, nebulized glutathione. So we do this a lot with respiratory problems. Did a lot during COVID and that's where you use a. A nebulizer like you would use, say, with asthma or other respiratory disorders, and you nebulize sterile glutathione so they breathe it in. That, that will absorb as well. It's a little more specific to the respiratory system, but that will certainly absorb. And then there is a form of glutathione that's used topically. It's a spray, and that is also available as well. And it's sort of a similar idea. It's going to go in. We do use the topical, especially with children where they may not take oral things very well, and they certainly are not going to let you do an infusion with a needle on them or something like that. So when we think about glutathione and mold exposure and mycotoxin illness, the way we want to think about it is the presence of the mycotoxins stresses the system. So we then have a bigger demand for glutathione to help us with detoxification and cell protection. Our body makes its own glutathione, but we're not going to be able to make enough to keep up, so to speak. And so supplementing So something like liposomal oral glutathione is a way to keep up and to keep the support of the antioxidants system, the detox, and the cell protection in balance with the increased demand of all of the mycotoxin exposure and mycotoxin illness.

Now, in other content that we're going to do, we're going to get into looking at, you know, what other things have to happen because you can't just do glutathione and expect your mycotoxin illness to get better. But glutathione is a very core treatment. And so anything we can do to support that can be very helpful.

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