Glutathione Benefits for Skin: What Can Glutathione Do for Your Skin?

Glutathione Benefits for Skin: What Can Glutathione Do for Your Skin?

Posted by:  Didrik Sopler, Ph.D., L.Ac.
A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study showed that taking oral glutathione can potentially improve skin health.
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Resveratrol Provides Many Important Benefits.

Resveratrol Provides Many Important Benefits.

Posted by:  Didrik Sopler, Ph.D., L.Ac.
Resveratrol, a compound found in grapes and red wine, activates SIRTs and has significant health benefits. It's a strong antioxidant, reduces inflammation, and can affect cellular pathways relating to cell death and survival (Moraes DS, et.al., 2020).
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Can a certain type of exercise provide anti-aging benefits?

Can a certain type of exercise provide anti-aging benefits?

Posted by:  Didrik Sopler, Ph.D., L.Ac.
This study examined the effect of exercise intensity on senescence in skeletal muscle, using a randomized counter-balanced crossover design (Jean WH, et.al., 2023). Senescence is the loss of a cell’s ability to divide and grow. Biopsies of the vastus lateralis muscle of 9 sedentary men with an average age of...
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Slow down the aging process with this plant ingredient.

Slow down the aging process with this plant ingredient.

Posted by:  Didrik Sopler, Ph.D., L.Ac.
The researchers of the following study investigated how 2 substances metformin, a drug, and berberine a plant substance, separately may affect and slow down the ageing process (Han X,et.al., 2016).   These enzymes and functions are affecting how we age.The function of AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK), an enzyme, is to...
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This substance affects your brain and how you age.

This substance affects your brain and how you age.

Posted by:  Didrik Sopler, Ph.D., L.Ac.
  The mitochondria are the energy producing enties of the cell and the primary intracellular site of oxygen consumption. For that reason, the exposure to free radical damage is also is also high.Among the antioxidants and detoxifying enzymes existing inmitochondria, mitochondrial glutathione emerges as the main line of defense (Mari...
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This natural ingredient has shown anti-aging properties.

This natural ingredient has shown anti-aging properties.

Posted by:  Didrik Sopler, Ph.D., L.Ac.
This natural ingredient has shown anti-aging properties. A lot of scientists are working on solutions to slow down and even reverse the aging process. The following study investigated if Berberine a natural ingredient would affect aging. Key pathologies of aging, including oxidative stress, mitochondrial malfunction, and the associated mTOR, AMPK...
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Can you decrease your risk for unhealthy aging?

Can you decrease your risk for unhealthy aging?

Posted by:  Didrik Sopler, Ph.D., L.Ac.
Healthy ageing can be defined as survival without chronic diseases like cardiovascular disease, cancer, lung disease, and severe chronic kidney disease, and the absence of cognitive and physical dysfunction, after age 65. The following research investigated if circulating omega 3 fatty levels had an effect on healthy ageing (Lai HT,...
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Is there an effective way to lower blood pressure without medications?

Is there an effective way to lower blood pressure without medications?

Posted by:  Didrik Sopler, Ph.D., L.Ac.
It is very common–even if it is not necessary–to see that the blood pressure is increasing with age.   With medications, blood pressure usually comes down, but it may still not be as low as we would like it to be. Blood pressure medications also comes with side effects. What else can...
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Do you want to react less to anxiety provoking stimuli?

Do you want to react less to anxiety provoking stimuli?

Posted by:  Didrik Sopler, Ph.D., L.Ac.
"The world can be a stressful place, and that is most likely not going to change anytime soon. The solution is to get to a state where we are not affected much by things that cause most people to react with anxiety. Is that possible or just wishful thinking?  ...
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Oxidative stress is involved in cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s Disease

Oxidative stress is involved in cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s Disease

Posted by:  Didrik Sopler, Ph.D., L.Ac.
Increased oxidative stress has been documented in the frontal cortex in individuals with Alzheimer’s disease and in patients with mild cognitive impairment (Ansari, MA 2010).  One of the emerging causative factors associated with Alzheimer’s pathology is oxidative stress. This AD-related increase in oxidative stress has been attributed to decreased levels...
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Stress shortens your telomeres...but why does that matter?

Stress shortens your telomeres...but why does that matter?

Posted by:  Didrik Sopler, Ph.D., L.Ac.
"A telomere is a region of repetitive nucleotides consisting of DNA and RNA at the end of a chromosome that protects the chromosome from deterioration. Shorter telomeres are known to determine cell longevity and shorter telomeres lead to a shorter lifespan.  Telomeres can therefore give us information on how fast...
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Can B Vitamins Affect Your Mood?

Posted by:  Didrik Sopler, Ph.D., L.Ac.
You would most likely prefer to feel happy and excited about life and ready to get going to accomplish your goals when you wake up. Do you think almost everybody feels that way? No, that is not the case, because depression is the second leading cause of disability, and it...
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3 Important Benefits of Flax Seeds

3 Important Benefits of Flax Seeds

Posted by:  Didrik Sopler, Ph.D., L.Ac.
One of the impressive health benefits of flax seeds is the ability to decrease blood pressure (Rodriguez-Leyva D, et.al., 2013). In a double-blinded, placebo-controlled study, 30 g of flax seeds daily for 6 months reduced the systolic blood pressure of 10 mm Hg and the diastolic blood pressure with 7...
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Decreasing Inflammation is 1 Important Way to Increase Your Life Expectancy

Decreasing Inflammation is 1 Important Way to Increase Your Life Expectancy

The process of atherosclerosis is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease and involves deposits of fat and especially LDL cholesterol into the blood vessel wall (Salisbury D, Bronas U, 2014). These researchers state that when the LDL cholesterol gets deposited into the vascular wall it can oxidize and cause injury...
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This is how you can protect your skin.

Posted by:  Didrik Sopler, Ph.D., L.Ac.
Ultraviolet light is causing oxidative stress and that is damaging to the skin. This also leads to the depletion of important cellular antioxidants, especially glutathione, which you may have guessed. Glutathione is a very effective antioxidant. Glutathione protects the liver, it’s involved in detoxification, and it also regulates the immune...
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This is a very important factor if you want to slow down your aging.

Posted by:  Didrik Sopler, Ph.D., L.Ac.
Inflammation may be the most important factor affecting how we age, but inflammation is also directly tied to free radical damage. We cannot really separate the two since we will always have increased inflammation when we have increased free radical damage. Some times it can be difficult to tell what...
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Oxidative stress increases aging.

Posted by:  Didrik Sopler, Ph.D., L.Ac.
Results of a large study suggests two mechanisms involved in the aging process (Zierer J, et al. 2016). The research involved 3,511 women and the results were replicated in an additional 904 participants. They found metabolites indicating increased oxidative stress due to alterations of the glutathione metabolism. This has previously...
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How stress affects your aging.

Posted by:  Didrik Sopler, Ph.D., L.Ac.
A lot of research documents a link between chronic stress, poor health and increased risk for cardiovascular disease and decreased immune function. First I want to point out that the negative effects of stress are related to chronic stress not acute stress. As an example, exercise is causing acute stress...
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How to slow down your aging.

Posted by:  Didrik Sopler, Ph.D., L.Ac.
Why do we age? There is no single factor responsible for why we age, but research has found several important factors affecting how fast we age. These are factors we can control to a large extent, which means that we can actually slow down the aging process. I will write...
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Extremely effective cellular protection.

Posted by:  Didrik Sopler, Ph.D., L.Ac.
Our cells are exposed to assaults all the time. That has a lot to do with why we age and get sick. Since that’s the case the body has ways to protect itself, otherwise we would not get very old. The most effective form of protection from free radical damage...
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