Glutathione: The Master Antioxidant Your Body Already Makes
You produce it in your liver, you spend it on detoxification, and most adults don't make as much as they think.
Glutathione has earned its nickname — the master antioxidant — because it's the molecule your body uses to neutralize the oxidative stress every other antioxidant gets credit for. Vitamin C, vitamin E, alpha-lipoic acid: they all eventually hand the work to glutathione.
It's made in your liver from three amino acids: cysteine, glycine, and glutamate. Most healthy adults produce a reasonable baseline. But three things deplete it faster than your liver can keep up: alcohol, chronic inflammation, and aging.
Every drink, every workout, every late night spends glutathione. The question is whether you're refilling the tank.
Oral glutathione is famously hard to absorb. It gets broken down in the stomach before it ever reaches your bloodstream. That's why IV delivery is the standard for therapeutic doses — it lands the molecule whole, where your cells can use it.
In our practice the glutathione push is most requested by two groups: people preparing their skin and complexion before an event, and people coming off a stretch of heavy alcohol or environmental exposure. Both groups consistently report the same thing — a clarity, almost a lightness, in the 48 hours after.
It's not a miracle. It's a refill. Your body knows what to do with it.
