focus on selenium, arsenic glutathione relative to ATP and autoimmunes

[Guest guest]

In response to a diet question from someone with arthritis, I'd be

concerned about antioxidant depletion, particularly the crucial

glutathione precursors. Glutathione levels are getting a one-two

punch in North America due to a precursor-poor diet and arsenic in

the groundwater.

 

Undenatured whey, and to a small extent raw food generally, provides

glutathione precursors; selenium is a co-factor.

 

Selenium is low to absent in most of North America's ground water,

while arsenic, a toxin that depletes selenium, is high.

 

Chronic arsenic exposure causes low ATP energy diseases such as

diabetes and cancer; figures obtained fom epdemiological research

tell you the risk revelant to your exposure.

 

The low ATP energy production diseases involve cell death and tissue

wasting; low ATP is a hallmark of all of the autoimmunes

and " mitochondrial disorders " including arthritis, and when you

correct energy production the cells are normal.

 

One molecule, glutathione, is crucial for both ATP energy production

and is the also the main antioxidant that protects the mitochondria

that have to be undamaged to produce that energy.

 

Keeping this antioxidant up can be critical to whether the

mitochondria, thus the cells, live or die; in other words, whether

you have disease or not.

 

Glutathione is particularly low in the low ATP diseases, which are in

fact shown in other research to be accompanied by a high degree of

oxidative stress.

 

Elevating glutathione reduces inflammation by acting as an

immunomodulator in addition to its powerful antioxidant properties in

which it also regenerates other antioxidants, and its detoxification

properties; it's the liver's main support in Phase II detoxification

reactions.

 

As mentioned, glutathione contains selenium, so, you'll need enough

selenium with your glutathione precursors to counteract most of the

arsenic in your drinking water as well as to create enough

glutathione to balance both the oxidative damage and ATP energy

requirement so the tissues stop wasting.

 

I think the above explanation is what caused local Dr. Bill Code to

latch onto undenatured whey like the missing ingredient it was in his

own multiple sclerosis regime.

 

Anyway, all the research about that is on my site; quite a lot of

reading. The autoimmune or neurodegenerative illnesses protocol

contains the direct links into supporting documentation. Interesting

that when the damage occurs in the nerves recovery takes a lot

longer; the nerves have to be there or you don't get muscle. Hope

this helped -- forwarding it is OK.

 

Duncan Crow

http://members.shaw.ca/duncancrow/