Decreased GSH levels increase cellular oxidative stress and are involved in many diseases and conditions, such as cancer, viral infections, and immune dysfunctions
Acknowledgements We thank Prof Wangsen Cao for their critical review and thoughtful discussion of the manuscript
There are infection risks (such as HIV, hepatitis B and C) if these drips are administered under non-sterile conditions or by people not certified to provide intravenous treatments
13 meta-analyses consisting of 51, 54, 58, and 59 separate clinical trials for LDL-C, HDL-C, TC and TG, respectively, were included in the final analysis
By contrast, for some indices, if there seemed to be no significant trend between groups with three repeats, we determined that there were no significant differences between groups and that the sample size would not increase