>From the website link; <<Recancostat is... a patented nutritional formula consisting of anthocyans, L-cysteine, and, most importantly, reduced glutathione. >> http://www.drdebe.com/RECANCOS.htm
The method above is pretty close to ineffective, but up to about 4 years or so ago it was all they had, and because they don't know better, it is still often promoted by MDs and Naturopaths. The rest of the data on the one page is pretty good, but making the connection between this product and raising cellular GSH levels is a large leap of faith. It will marginally increase plasma GSH levels however. It is well-established that l-cysteine is mainly broken down by the digestive system and what little enters the bloodstream does not get into the cells appreciably to make cellular glutathione. So besides being ineffective, l-cysteine at decent doses has known toxicity issues. Reduced glutathione GSH also is broken down into its components in the gut and is almost completely ineffective at making cellular glutathione because it also does not enter the cells. This is a matter of peer-reviewed published research. What I'm referring to is that OPTIMAL GSH production; real, disease-correcting, useful levels of cellular glutathione cannot even be approached with the above method. For that, the glutathione precursor cystine must be used. It cannot be 'added' to the body in a workable form. <<Anthocyans have antioxidant activity. >> This has nothing to do with GSH production but like they said, can regenerate plasma GSH levels. Because the bulk of GSH action is inside the cells and this product doesn't go to that level, I still favour the whey isolate patented for that purpose. ciao Duncan -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: [email protected] -or- [email protected] with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
