MA+IGP Frequently Asked Questions
What is Glutathione?
Glutathione, also known as (GSH) is the body’s “Master Antioxidant” and an important healing agent. It is a protein naturally occurring in the body, with the important role of protecting cells, tissues and organs from aging and disease.
Glutathione is a molecule that is composed of three amino acids – Cysteine, Glycine and Glutamic acid, and it is so important that it’s found in almost every living cell – plant, animal, and human. It is synthesized or made inside the cells of the body. Glutathione is called the “Master Intracellular Antioxidant” because it captures the free radicals that are created when the immune system responds to any “attack.”
Glutathione is being depleted from our bodies on a daily basis, and even more in people who are exposed to oxidative stressors such as: smoking, pollution, dietary deficiency, pharmaceuticals, radiation, bacterial and viral infections, and alcohol consumption.
What role does Glutathione play in health and disease?
It is believed that Glutathione has an important role to play in the prevention of hundreds of diseases. It may in the future be considered as important to health as a well-balanced diet, exercise and a good lifestyle. Clinical tests show that raised Glutathione levels may address some major health issues of our time such as heart disease, stroke, diabetes, high cholesterol, asthma, cigarette smoking, hepatitis, AIDS and more. Glutathione provides the body with tools to fight these threats naturally. Healthy people also benefit from raised Glutathione levels through an enhanced ability to fight off toxins, infectious disease, pre-cancerous cells and the aging process itself. Diminished Glutathione levels are a symptom of aging and are particularly evident in such ailments as Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s disease. Glutathione is also important to physically active people. Many world class athletes are discovering that well maintained Glutathione levels give them an edge over their competitors, bringing greater strength and endurance, decreased recovery time from injury, less muscle pain and fatigue, and muscle promoting activity.
As an essential component to good health, Glutathione works as the “Master Antioxidant” in our body by optimizing the immune system and detoxifying a long list of pollutants and carcinogens. However, the body’s Glutathione levels are not raised by consuming Glutathione, since it is poorly absorbed through the digestive system. It must be manufactured within the cells of the body. Therefore, the best way to raise Glutathione levels is to provide the building blocks needed by the cells to produce it at the cellular level. MA+IGP provides these building blocks.
How does the manufacturing of MA+IGP differ from other whey proteins?
MA+IGP is made with a unique proprietary process developed by our scientific team backed by 20 years of knowledge. This process enhances a balance of specific peptides formulated to improve cellular vitality. This makes MA+IGP the only well-balanced protein peptide fuel of its kind for your cells!
What is the difference with products or pills that people use which are stated to be Glutathione or Cysteine?
Glutathione is produced intracellularly, thus simply taking a pill does not increase one’s levels of this master antioxidant. MA+IGP is a natural delivery system of Cysteine and other essential amino acids needed for Glutathione production to the cell, allowing the cellular levels of Glutathione to increase.
What is the difference between taking MA+IGP and other antioxidants?
MA+IGP is not actually an antioxidant, but it provides the building blocks for the synthesis of Glutathione, which is the principal intracellular antioxidant. More importantly, Glutathione serves as a detoxifying agent for multiple toxins that we encounter on a daily basis through the environment and medications we are exposed to. Glutathione has been shown to act as an effective protector against ultraviolet light, an issue of great concern due to the continued loss of the ozone layer.
Can a person who is lactose intolerant take MA+IGP?
Yes, MA+IGP contains less than 1% lactose, which will not create any ill effects even in the most severe cases of lactose intolerance.
Who should not take MA+IGP?
People with an allergy to milk proteins, which is rare, should not take MA+IGP. Please note that “lactose intolerant” is not a milk allergy. Also, people who have had an organ transplant and are receiving immunosuppressant therapy should not take MA+IGP.
Should I consult my physician?
MA+IGP is classified as a natural health product in the USA and Canada. There are no contraindications with this product except for those mentioned in the above question. Other than in these rare cases, everyone should consider using MA+IGP. However, you should always consider your physician’s advice very carefully.
Where does Glutathione come from?
Glutathione is synthesized or made inside the cells of the body. The amino acids that make up Glutathione must be available for Glutathione production. The amino acid called Cysteine is the most difficult for humans to obtain. Therefore, Cysteine is called the “rate limiting” amino acid for Glutathione production. Glutathione is homeostatically controlled, both outside and inside the cell. Enzyme systems synthesize it, utilize it, and then regenerate it to always keep adequate levels available.
How do our cells protect themselves?
With a small protein molecule named Glutathione (GSH). This molecule is called a tri-peptide because it is composed of three amino acids – Cysteine, Glycine and Glutamic acid.
Medical research has determined that having less than 70% of the reduced (active) form of Glutathione in the cell will result in cellular dysfunction, and a disease state will follow. It has been documented that those people who are HIV positive can delay or prevent the ARC (AIDS Related Complex) from occurring by maintaining high levels of intracellular Glutathione (reduced form).
The cell synthesizes or produces its own Glutathione dependent on the needs of that particular cell. The substrates or precursors (building blocks) when adequately present inside the cell, allow the cell to maintain production of Glutathione at a rate that will exceed the required 70% active form. The amino acid that is the “rate limiting” amino acid is Cysteine. It is far more difficult for the body to obtain sufficient Cysteine than either Glutamic acid or Glycine. In fact, those people in their late 50s or early 60s have a slowly declining production rate of this important molecule.
With inadequate intracellular Glutathione, the risk of disease is greatly increased. The results are self evident in our increasing cancer incident reports. What more can be said concerning the absolute requirement for maintaining Glutathione at 80 to 90% active form per cell?
Regardless of the ailment, MA+IGP can help
your body on a cellular level to heal itself and regain optimal, pain-free, vibrant health.
Can you provide additional information on how Glutathione helps the body prevent disease?
Thecellular level of Glutathione changes as you go through the day. Stress, microbial attack, cellular cancer change, cellular degenerative change, traumatic change, exercise change, changes of aging, lack of nutritional support and lack of supplementation all effect the homeostatic control mechanism that has the responsibility to maintain effective levels of intracellular Glutathione.
When the level of Glutathione declines or the GSH/GSSG ratio changes, the cell involved begins to experience damage.
The type of cell involved dictates the type of tissue involved, which then dictates the organ system involved. Depending on which organ system suffers, the result will dictate the disease process or type of diseases that then may occur.
Where the cell is involved with oxidative damage, you will see these oxidative related diseases: accelerated aging, cell destruction, compromised immune response, cancer, arteriosclerosis, coronary artery disease, Parkinson’s disease, diabetes, cataract formation, macular degeneration, emphysema/COPD, allergy/asthma, stroke and Alzheimer’s to list only a few.
Everyday, research is uncovering more intricate details of how Glutathione functions in this very sophisticated, integrated response and defense system. It is so very important for each of us to have an immune response that is 100% capable. We are under attack at all time, day and night and it does not take much to alter that response just a few percentage points and then the result can be disastrous.
Some of the immune system related diseases are viral infections, i.e., sudden acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), hepatitis, HIV/AIDS, herpes, common cold, bacterial super infections, the autoimmune diseases, cancer, and Covid-19 just to name a few.
In our environment, especially over the last 10 years, the prevalence of environmental toxins has finally been recognized; not only toxins in our air, but also in the food we eat and in the liquid we drink. When you breathe, eat or drink you are exposed to disease providing toxins. In fact, current research is identifying and relating intracellular toxic burden with disease. Diseases that often times, cannot be helped by mainstream medicine are being successfully treated by enhancing the body’s ability to convert the damaging chemical substances into harmless conjugates that the body can eliminate. Once this burden is removed from the cell, a normal function many times can be restored.
Toxic related diseases include: emphysema, liver disease, liver cancer (which many times is a natural progression of compromised liver cells), bladder cancer, kidney and liver failure, colon inflammation and colon cancer, and multiple environmental illnesses. Known toxins include cigarette smoke, carcinogens, auto exhaust, drug usage (both medicinal drugs as well as street drugs), chemotherapy and radiation treatments.
Finally, but not inclusively, some of the radiation related diseases are: skin cancer, DNA damage, eye damage, sunburn and many skin related disorders.
*These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.