Glutathione (GSH) is an antioxidant in plants, animals, fungi, and some bacteria and archaea. Glutathione is capable of preventing damage to important cellular components caused by reactive oxygen species such as free radicals, peroxides, lipid peroxides, and heavy metals. It is a tripeptide with a gamma peptide linkage between the carboxyl group of the glutamate side chain and cysteine. The carboxyl group of the cysteine residue is attached by normal peptide linkage to glycine.

Main functions:

Cosmetics grade

1) Anti-aging, antioxidant, maintain skin vigor and luster.

2) Whitening skin: restraining the melanin

3) Improve immunity: enhance immune cells function effectively prevent viruses. 

Pharmaceutical grade

1) Protect liver: prevention & treatment of liver diseases.

2) Detoxification: drugs and other kinds of poisoning auxiliary treatments,helpful for excreting toxins.

3) Prevention and treatment of eye diseases.

4) Auxiliary treatment of diabetes.

Application

1. Glutathione role of clinical treatment and prevention

Under pathological conditions when endogenous GSH reduction, timely exogenous GSH has become to be. Exogenous GSH supplement can prevent and treat related diseases, maintain a healthy body. 

(1) Radiation sickness and radiation safety: radiation, radioactive substances or because of leukopenia caused by anticancer drugs and other symptoms can play a protective effect. 

(2) To protect the liver, detoxification, inactivation of hormones, and to promote bile acid metabolism and help absorb fat and fat-soluble vitamins digestive tract. 

(3) Anti-allergy, or inflammation caused by hypoxemia in patients with systemic or local, can reduce cell damage and promote repair. 

(4) To improve the course of certain diseases and symptoms as adjuvant drugs. Such as: hepatitis, hemolytic disease, and keratitis, cataract and retinal diseases, such as eye disease and improve vision. 

(5) Easy to speed up the metabolism of acids in the excretion of free radicals, which play a beauty skin care, anti-aging effect. 

2. Food additives 
(1) added to pasta, to make manufacturers reduce the time of bread to the original one-half or one third, and serve to strengthen the role of food nutrition and other features. 

(2) to add to the yogurt and baby food, the equivalent of vitamin C, can play a stabilizing agent. 
(3) in its mix to the surimi to prevent color deepened. 
(4) to the meat and cheese and other foods, have enhanced the effect of flavor. 

3. Beauty products 
Prevent the infiltration of Los tyrosinase in order to achieve the purpose of inhibiting melanin formation. On eliminate wrinkles, increase skin elasticity, shrink pores, lighten pigment, the body has an excellent whitening effect. Glutathione as the main ingredient in cosmetic products in Europe and the United States was welcomed by the decades.