How to Build up Your Glutathione without Supplements

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 22 March 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast, we’re going to talk about the antioxidant glutathione. Glutathione is an important antioxidant present in all of your cells. It helps detoxify heavy metals and protects against free radical damage and oxidation.

Your body makes glutathione! You should only take a supplement if you have Tylenol poisoning. Tylenol depletes glutathione and puts your liver at risk for damage. If you’re dealing with Tylenol poisoning, you may be given an NAC supplement, a precursor to help build up your glutathione.

Glutathione deficiency symptoms include the following:

• Trouble sleeping

• Brain fog

• Fatigue

• Mood issues

• Depression

• Anxiety

Top causes of glutathione deficiency:

• Alcohol

• Low-calorie diets

• Overtraining

• Vegan diets

• Low-protein intake

• A mutation of the MTHFR gene

• Folic acid supplements

Try the following tips to ensure that you’re getting enough glutathione without taking a supplement:

1. Get enough glycine. Consume organ meats, the skin from meat and fish, bone broth, and gelatin.

2. Ensure adequate B vitamin intake. Avoid synthetic B vitamins. Meat is a great source of B12 and consuming organ meats and dark leafy greens will help add folate to your diet.

3. Get plenty of vitamin C from sources like sauerkraut and leafy greens.

4. Get enough sleep.

5. Do not over-exercise. Limit high-intensity exercise to twice a week.

6. Reduce stress. Adaptogens, going for a walk, listening to music, and even physical labor can reduce stress.

7. Consume sufficient protein with plenty of calories.

8. Increase carb intake to 50 grams per day.

9. Consume cruciferous vegetables.

10. Consume seafood for trace minerals like zinc and selenium.

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0:00.0	I wanted to do a video on glutathione, specifically because I had a glutathione deficiency,
0:07.1	and I'm going to share with you a little bit about what I found on my body because, of course,
0:11.2	if you have the deficiency, you want to really understand it and do a deep dive on this topic.
0:15.6	Glutathion is the major antioxidant in all of the cells.
0:20.0	It helps you detoxify heavy metals. It helps with the free radical damage.
0:24.5	It helps with all the extra oxidation that occurs, especially if you're exposed to a lot of pollution and chemicals and mold and things like that.
0:32.0	So I want to share with you how to have enough glutathione
0:35.1	without having to take the supplement.
0:36.6	The one thing you need to know is that your body actually makes glutathion.
0:40.6	The only time I would take a supplement related to this is if you had
0:44.0	Tylenol poisoning and that depletes your glutathion and really puts your liver
0:49.3	at risk for damage. You would want to take a supplement called NAC, which is a precursor to build up your
0:55.6	glutathion, but they would normally give you that in an emergency room setting.
1:00.4	Let's take a look at some symptoms from a glutathion deficiency.
1:04.0	When someone's deficient in glutathion, they're going to have a problem sleeping, they're going to have
1:07.7	a problem with fatigue, they're going to have a problem with brain fog, they're going to have a problem
1:11.4	with their mood, maybe depression, anxiety.
1:14.0	Now let's jump over to the causes of a glutathion deficiency.
1:18.0	Alcohol, being on a very, very low calorie diet, over training, and in my case that was my number one cause because I pretty much
1:28.1	eat really healthy but I do exercise and sometimes too much.
1:33.4	And if you are a vegan, the need for glutathion
1:36.4	is going to go higher,
	...

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