Over the past 25 years, research has shown that reduced glutathione levels plays a significant role in illness and disease.

Obviously then, it is in your best interest that we talk about how to raise glutathione levels.

Since the key to to our body’s ability to make glutathione in every cell is the amount of cysteine in our diet, let’s take a look at cysteine itself, N-acetylcysteine (or NAC for short), and Immunocal.

Cysteine is an amino acid and can be found by itself in supplement form, pills or powder. Unfortunately, just eating cysteine “raw” has not proved to be effective in raising glutathione levels.

Why? Well, cysteine, when it is all by itself, is quickly oxidized by your digestive system and doesn’t make its way to your cells. The trick is to protect the cysteine molecule so it can survive the perilous trip from your mouth to your gut and onto your cell where it can be used.

NAC

NAC is a chemically modified form of cysteine that is able to safely make the journey from mouth to cell. In fact, NAC is used as a drug to raise glutathione levels in critical medical situations such as an acetaminophen overdose.

However, NAC has two significant drawbacks.

Not a pleasant experience for someone who want to raise levels of glutathione on a daily basis.

Immunocal

Thanks to Dr. Gutavo Bounous, the world was introduced to a safe and natural solution to increasing glutathione levels safely, consistently and naturally. He developed what is now called Immunocal, a protein supplement that uses a patented process to deliver “bonded” cysteine to the cell. Immunocal can be described as a “cysteine delivery vehicle” that allows the cyteine molecule to get from your mouth to your cell where it can then be used to produce glutathione.

Once in the cell, the transformation of this cysteine molecule to glutathione begins quickly, but continues over many hours as your digestive and metabolic process do their thing.

Best of all, side affects from the taking of Immunocal are very rare.

Get more information on Immunocal or watch a video with Dr. Jimmy Gutman on the benefits of glutathione.