Glutathione and Cancer:

've been diagnosed with cancer and they are starting treatment? Cancer runs in my family? What can I do about it? What treatment options are there with glutathione? Someone I know has been through cancer treatments; what they can do to support their health? Read on for the answers to these questions.

Dr Daria Davidson, a medical doctor with 30 years experience, speaks about cancer and glutathione.
Referring to a reference, "Glutathione Disregulation and the Etiology and the Progression of Human Diseases" -- an article published in Biological Chemistry in 2009. It reads, "Glutathione (GSH) plays an important role in a multitude of processes including cell differentiation, proliferation and apoptosis."

Apoptosis is the programming of cancer cells to self destroy. Wickopedia describes it as follows: "These changes include blebbing, loss of cell membrane asymmetry and attachment, cell shrinkage, nuclear fragmentation, chromatin condensation, and chromosomal, DNA fragmentation."

The article goes on to say, "and as a result disturbances in the GSH homeostasis are implicated in the etiology and or progression of a number of human diseases including cancer, diseases of aging, cystic fibrosis, cardiovascular, inflammatory, immune, metabolic and neuro degenerative diseases. Owing to the pilotropic" (large or big) "effects of GSH on cell functions it has been quite difficult to define the role of GSH in the onset and or the expression of human diseases although significant progression is being made. GSH levels, turn over rates, and or oxidative states can be compromised by inherited or acquired defects in the enzyme transporters, signaling molecules or transcription factors that are involved in the homeostatic state or reactive chemicals," as the article continues.

Dr Davidson summarizes by saying, "This basically purports that low glutathione levels increase the risk of disease."

But a big question remains, "If cancer is present, is there a problem with boosting glutathione?" The reason the question is asked is because cancer cells also contain glutathione; and glutathione in the cancer cell actually serves to protect the cancer cell as well. Many professionals believe that cancer cells are weakened cells and if glutathione is boosted, then boosting glutathione could make them stronger.

Dr. Daria's feeling is that if the cancer cell were a weakened cell in the first place it wouldn't kill us. So instead we want to do something to weaken them if they are present.

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