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With many essential functions, including serving as a tissue builder and repairer, playing a central role in the immune system, and acting as a detoxifier of the body from various drugs and toxins, it is fitting that it has now become the subject of extensive research as we enter the next century
The individual amino acids are absorbed and can be used to resynthesize glutathione intracellularly, but this is a slow, rate-limited process that does not produce the acute plasma elevation seen with parenteral routes
Glutathione is a tripeptide antioxidant that protects cells from oxidative damage and supports detoxification
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