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What Makes A Functional Glutathione?

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Most glutathione supplements fail because they break down before your body can use them. VARS Glutathione is different—it’s patented, validated, and proven to raise real intracellular glutathione levels. That means it actually works to calm inflammation, lower cytokines, and protect your cells where it matters most.

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Original sourceDan Purser MD

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How does glutathione benefit you as an individual? So, if you have gene snips around the glutathione genes, the glutathione enzymes, then there's a potential that you may not be processing glutathione very efficiently or you're making much less of it, reduced

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glutathione specifically, than your body really needs. Glutathione is the master antioxidant in your body. the glut the antioxidant that supports all other antioxidants and that provides immense protection in every single cell of your

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body which then has downstream effects of protecting every organ in your body. Glutathione is incredibly important. As we age, we lose the ability to reduce glutathione efficiently. This is a a major problem because when you have

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oxidative stress and oxidative damage within your cells, your DNA is getting damaged. The proteins that are created are getting damaged and everything is working much less efficiently than it should be and can cause all kinds of other issues and can even lead to issues

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such as stroke, liver failure, kidney failure, heart disease, all these different things. All because your body is lacking the defense mechanisms that it needs to protect itself against oxidative stress and damage. So that's where supplementing with a functional

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glutathione product can be immensely beneficial for an individual, especially if you have gene snips around glutathione. Like we've said, everyone always says, well, why not just supplement with neck? That's where the science and the data does say it's one of the most efficient ways to raise your

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indogenous glutathione levels or the glutathione levels in your body is by supplementing with knack and acetylcysteine because cyine is the limiting factor of the three amino acids that create glutathione. It's the one that you have to get from your diet uh to be able to make glutathione. And so

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many studies have been done on that because when supplementing with a glutathione product, it just wasn't nearly as efficient. Now, why would that be? That's because the glutathione products that everyone's used in studies and what 99% of products are in the

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world are oxidized or nonfunctional glutathione. You need a reduced or fully functional glutathione product to provide the most benefits to you. And that's where VARs glutathione was born. Vars validated,

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absorbable, reduced, and stable are the standards of a functional antioxidant product. And that's where VARS glutathione is truly the first of its kind. Our original product was a liposomaal liquid, and we're coming back with that one later this fall. For those that know it, I'm super excited to bring

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that one back. It's going to be really, really good. And we went through painst a painstaking process to create a reduced glutathione for the actual consumer because you can stable it in a lab but then as soon as you start putting it into bottles it's going to

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oxidize whether it's the the oxygen that's free floating in the water or the oxygen just in the air all around you. Glutathione is that reactive that it oxidizes so quickly even just with air around you. So our VARS process, our

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VARS patented process is protecting glutathione at every single stage of manufacturing and so that the final end consumer actually receives a full dose of reduced glutathione. What a concept

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and that's where we have seen incredible benefits for our patients in our clinics over the years. We have treated so many unique cases and seen things that maybe shouldn't be happening but are happening because it's actually reduced glutathione that people are getting. The

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science and data has shown that that glutathione should be beneficial for all of these different things but it just isn't when they actually go use it. That's where Vars glutathione, we're actually seeing those benefits, which is really incredible with both of our our capsule version of Vars Liposal

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Glutathione as well as our liquid version. So, you'll need both. You'll need both versions once they're both out. Again, if you are low in glutathione, these ones are designed exactly for you. If you have any questions about glutathione or about testing how to find out if you're low in

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glutathione, reach out to our office, reach out to our staff. We are so happy to help answer these questions and get you along on your journey. So, when you're dealing with antioxidants, find the ones that actually work. Find the ones that are truly functional and will benefit you. If they're not, they're not

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