I’m curious about glutathione . . . I read Art de Vany’s blog and he talks about taking a glutathione supplement along with your Damage Control. I’m using DC now. Any plans to include glutathione in it? Or should I add on an additional glutathione supplement?

Thanks

Drew

Wow. Good stuff. Sometimes we are so close to this we forget how confusing it can be. CoQ10 is a “co-enzyme”. It is vital to human functioning. In fact, it probably should have been given “vitamin” status when they were naming all the vitamins. Many vitamins (and CoQ10)are considered co-enzymes in that they are involved in the operations or manufacturing of actual enzymes (but they are NOT enzymes themselves). Co-enzymes are co-factors upon which some of the larger, more complex enzymes depend to accomplish their tasks. Those larger enzymes are the ones I suggest you can’t consume in food and hope that they will have an affect on your health, because the acid in your stomach will break them down before they reach the bloodstream.

I’m confused here. It seems that Mark is arguing that enzymes don’t have a nutritive benefit. To me, the enzymes they speak of in juicer infomercials would be antioxidant enzymes - ones derived from juicing vegetables. Without getting into why you shouldn’t juice and rather just eat the vegetable, and following the rest of his argument, shouldn’t the exception he makes for enzyme supplements be for antioxidant enzymes rather than digestve ones?

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-03/osu-sfn030507.php

about a study that showed flavonoids are not directly antioxidant, but are still beneficial through a different mecahnism:

“If you measure the activity of flavonoids in a test tube, they are indeed strong antioxidants,” Frei said. “Based on laboratory tests of their ability to scavenge free radicals, it appears they have 3-5 times more antioxidant capacity than vitamins C or E. But with flavonoids in particular, what goes on in a test tube is not what’s happening in the human body.”