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“Oxidative stress
occurs when there is an imbalance between the production
of the reactive oxygen species and the eyes’ biological
systems being able to readily detoxify the reactive
intermediate and easily repair the resulting damage,”
from Wikipedia. If you have free radicals from oxidative
stress, you need an antioxidant to reduce the free
radical—an oxidation reduction reaction. Glutathione
donates and extra electron to accomplish this. This
reducing environment is preserved by enzymes and
components like glutathione that maintain the constant
status of metabolic energy which is ATP (Adenosine
triphosphate) in the cell. According to Dr. Daria Davidson, glutathione is the guardian of the cell, it neutralizes free radicals better than anything, and is the best thing you can have to support the function and structure of your body in every cell. Along with keeping glutathione levels high it's beneficial to keep superoxide dismutases and coenzyme q10 levels high too. According to the statistics in this country age macular degeneration is second only to diabetes in causing blindness. World wide the number one cause of blindness is cataracts. In Australia, the number one cause is open-angle glaucoma. But what's important is that all three of these conditions are related with low levels of glutathione in the eye.
Journal of Ocular
Pharmacology and Therapeutics in April of 2000 “the
reducing compound exists in an unusually high
concentration in the lens where it functions as a
accentual antioxidant and vital for maintenance of the
tissues transparency.”
Dr. Davidson goes on
to say that “Cataracts are caused by the lens becoming
cloudy. This article is related to the lens which is
specifically related to cataracts. Glaucoma is not a
lens issue. Macular degeneration is not a lens issue.
They are issues of the eye but not related to the lens.”
The article goes on to
say, “In conjunction with glutathione the oxidation
reduction cycle located in the lens epithelium
detoxifies this potentially dangerous oxidant. The
depletion of glutathione or the inhibition of the cycle
to occur causes oxidative damage resulting in a clouding
of the lens,” which is what cataracts are.
Journal of Ocular
Service in 2007 “Deficiency in glutathione has been
linked to ocular disease and viral infection, endogenous
glutathione (glutathione your body makes. exodogenous is
glutathione they give to you) plays a role in
safeguarding active transfer processes across the
surface of the mucosa of the eye and also within the
tear film. Glutathione is the most abundant endogenous
antioxidant molecule in tear fluid.”
Dr. Davidson goes on
to say, “So you have tear ducts in your eyes that
lubricate the surface of your eye. The tear ducts then
are actually letting some glutathione come outside of
the cell that is in the fluid to bath the area.
Glutathione outside of the cell can put out some free
radical damage but not near as well as when it in inside
the cell. It is called the guardian of the cell although
there will be some glutathione outside the cell, the
glutathione you make yourself have a increased effect
for you. There are glutathione eye drops available to
you, but most of them are used in Japan to help keep the
eyes healthy. Of course if you make more glutathione for
yourself, you're going to be much healthier.”
Mutation research in
2006 – The Role of Oxidative Stress in Glaucoma
“Increasing evidence indicates that reactive oxygen
species (free radicals” play a key role in pathogenesis
(disease) of primary Open-Angle Glaucoma the main cause
of irreversible blindness worldwide.”
This article suggests
that Glaucoma is the main cause of blindness world wide
whereas other sources claim that cataracts are. In
either case, glutathione is a major player.
Progress in Retinal
and Eye Research in 2003 “The high concentration of
glutathione in the lens in believed to protect
structural proteins and enzymes for proper biological
functioning. The lens of both biosynthetic and
regenerating systems for glutathione to maintain its
large pool size. However aging lens are lens under
oxidative stress show an extensively diminished size of
glutathione pool.
In summary—glutathione
and the health of your eye—gluathione is needed for
every cell of your body to function optimally. We know
that certain cells under particular stress—liver cells
have a very high amount of glutathione because they are
the wash machine of the body. Lungs are also high in
glutathione to handle the toxins that we breathe. Skin
is high in glutathione to deal with the free radical
damage caused by sunlight and the eyes are likewise high
in glutathione because they too are exposed to sunlight.
If you keep your eyes healthy, the likely hood of
getting a diagnosis goes down.
Information taken from
Dr. Daria's weekly calls at
http://smilin2themax.com/AudiosDrDariaDavidson.aspx
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