Glutathione is a tripeptide, which is a fancy way of saying it is a small protein made of three specific amino acids: cysteine, glutamate, and glycine
Strict vegetarians and vegans, or people with conditions that prevent them from absorbing nutrients from food, are the most likely people to be deficient
This makes finding a source a big problem
The most important thing he learned decades ago was that we dont need any new medication because everything the body needs in order to survive we already have inside our body
However, theres a lot of individual variability in GSH status between people thats largely dependent on an individuals capacity to actually produce glutathione, which may be dictated by genetic variability in the enzymes needed to produce and/or regenerate it 2
Data from co-cultures of CD34+ blood-derived endothelial cells and bovine pericytes suggest that SARS-CoV-2 does not directly infect endothelial cells (Constant et al., 2021)