Recovery from Injury & Soreness

Whether it’s aches and pains the day after a workout, or an injury requiring weeks of physiotherapy, shortening or avoiding these nuisances plays a key role in improving ones performance or lengthening a career.

Immunocal increases glutathione stored in cells including muscle tissue. The presence of glutathione helps mediate muscle damage and soreness that results from high levels of free radical production, an inevitable result of the increase in oxidative stress seen in athletic endeavours. The muscle damage from oxidation is evident in both aerobic sports (e.g. Triathlon) and anaerobic sports (e.g. Basketball).

In more severe trauma including strains, sprains, tears and breaks, elevated glutathione levels are correlated with shortened recovery time. With the added advantage of supplying full-spectrum amino acid coverage, Immunocal will get you back in the game quicker.

Glutathione can:

• Reduce acute free radical muscle inflammation
• Reduce delayed-onset muscle soreness
• Reduce muscle fatigue
• Increase lean muscle mass
• Decrease recovery time from workouts/events
• Increase strength and endurance
• Increase peak power and work capacity
• Maintain immune function and resist illness
• Improve performance
• Detoxify toxins, drugs and pollutants

1998: Wulf Dröge and colleagues were the first to discover the age-related decrease in the plasma concentration of cysteine, the limiting precursor of glutathione.

Blood. 1998 July; 92:59-67. Pubmed PMID: 9639500
The Redox State as a Correlate of Senescence and Wasting and as a Target for Therapeutic Intervention
Hack V, Breitkreutz R, Kinscherf R, Rörer H, Bartsch P, Taut F, Benner A and Dröge W.

“Our study showed a decrease in the plasma thiol level indicative of an age-dependent shift to a more oxidized condition.”

 

GLUTATHIONE DEPLETION

Every day our bodies are exposed to factors that drain our levels of glutathione:

• Stress,
• Pollution,
• Radiation,
• Infection,
• Drugs,
• Poor diet,
• Ageing,
• Injury and fatigue.

These contribute to glutathione depletion which, in turn, leads to cellular ageing, disease & death.

People will soon be raising their glutathione levels the same way they take their vitamin pills each morning,” says Dr. Bounous.

RAISING GLUTATHIONE

• It is vital to clarify one particular aspect of the glutathione story.
• When people find out about GSH, they want to go to their health store, buy some.
• Although it made as a supplement, eating glutathione has negligible effects on your health.
• It is quickly broken down in your digestive tract and eliminated.
• GSH must be manufactured within your cells, which is exactly where it appears—in every cell of your body.
• The only way to accomplish this effectively is to give your body the precursors it needs to manufacture glutathione for itself.

Milk thistle (silymarin), alpha-lipoic acid and L‑cysteine may have moderate effects.

The most effective natural way to raise glutathione as borne out by medical research,

Is by feeding the individual specific cysteine and cystine-rich proteins as found in undenatured whey protein isolates.

This type of natural approach to addressing health concerns is a welcome compliment to traditional medicine, which has historically marginalized nutritional therapy. The key in bridging this gap between western medicine and natural medicine lies in appropriately studying supplements with solid research.

 

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