IV Glutathione - Day 7

My last treatment. Upon the completion of this treatment, I purchased the Glutathione pills 60 days supply to maintain and then will take the IV every other month.

My pictures without photoshop. In different angles. Indoor lighting in natural light.

Overal Thoughts:

As I was getting the treatment done, I definitely feel healthier. There wasn't a "wow" result in skin whitening as I was expected. However, I did see some clarity and brightening effect on my skin. You will definitely see the "brightening" effect on your face, not so much of whitening. On my body, my arms seem to lightened a bit too! But you have to be careful of staying in the sun, even if you're driving in the car with sun light directly at your face and body. Cover yourself with long sleeves if you're planning to be out and about in the sun for more than 10 minutes. It can burn your skin and make it look pink or... Burnt! LoL. 

Stay away from Burt's Bee Brightening products. I tried it on the night before and the next morning woke up with my face looking like "honey." I meant, if you're lookibg for a brightening effect from this product, it actually did the opposite. My face was sooo dark! Out of no where. I was terrified. I threw away the whole sample pack.

Bottom line, if you want to achieve youthful looking skin, IV Glutathione is the ideal. It not only brightened your skin but also provide a boost to your immune system. For skin whitening, I think it requires a maintenant process and over a period of time! Unlike bleaching products that you on your skin to whiten it, it only affects the surface of your skin but your body still produce a regular level of melanin. Glutathione, on the other hand will need time to blend into your melanin and body as a whole. Therefore, they said it is a "process" to maintain and whitened your skin inside out.

IV Glutathione - Day 6

Got my sixth one done today. Nothing speacial is going on. Right now it is the allergy season in Arizona, in which the weather could weirdly change from hot to cold one day and the next could be hot all day long. Around this time of the year my nose doesn't appreciate sneezing all day long, because of my sinus problem since I was little. By getting Vitamin C and Glutathione into my body more often, I can tell that it definitely help raising my immune system because of the abundant amount of antioxidant I have right now, therefore help fighting the cold/allergy. This part is disgusting so if you don't like anything about nose... I'd suggest move on to the paragraph! Around this time of the year, my sinus gets really bad, to the point that I would always end up blowing my nose all the day long during day time and at night it would get congested. What usually happened was that during the day Kleenex tissues are my bestie and at night Afrin decongestion spray is like my angel. I could not sleep when I couldn't breathe right!

However, this year I notice a slight change in my body; such as right now I don't have to depend on my Kleenex as much anymore, still sneezing a lot but compared to previous years... Still waaay less! Therefore my sinus doesn't get congested. Even the nurse said that the amount of vitamin C and glutathione I'm getting should help with my immune system fighting off the cold and allergy. I don't feel as tired as before. 

Again, some non-photoshopped pics taken during this allergy misery.

IV Glutathione - Day 5

My fifth one was done today! The nurse said that she sees some changes in me but maybe it's not as noticable, because I'm already light skined. I am seeing some nice glow on my skin as a whole. I do see that my face and body seem to get lighter. However, I don't know if it's really noticeable since I haven't received any comments or compliments yet ever since I got my IV done.

Some pictures with no photoshops!

Selfie - bathroom lighting LoL

Indoor with little window lighting

Indoor lighting at night

IV Glutathione - Day 4

Today is my fourth time getting the IV glutathione! I guess I have received quite a few compliments on how glowy and white my skin has looked in the past few days. Regardless, I still want to achieve the result as shown the picture in previous post.

Pictures: no photoshops were done! And of course, i had my baby with me too :-) All of these pics were taken without flash! 

Indoor, darker lighting with no flash!

IV Glutathione - Day 3

Just finished having my third treatment today! I have been taking twice every week so far. After this time, I'm gonna do it once a week until the seventh treatment is done!

I purchased a glutathione facial soap this time, since my cleanser is all out. I decided to give this a try. It is said to have Glutathione (skin whitening), Shea Butter (soften the skin), and Collagen (plump the skin and preventing wrinkles).

The nurse was there right away so I couldn't take any pictures. These were shots taken after the IV, in my car with natural lighting. There were shots where I intentionally leave part of my skin out in the sun light. As much as I wanted to and hating my zit right now, but I decided not to do any photoshops on any of these pictures. I wanted to give an honest review for my myself and my readers.

And I went home put on my other clothes, of course darker shade just to see the effect. Indoor, natural light.

My next one will be next week on Thursday July 10, 14.

What are Benefits of Glutathione? Benefits and Risks.

Glutathione (GSH) is a chemical molecule that is naturally produced by your body. It is an antioxidant, a powerful one because not only it neutralizes free radicals but it also have the ability to regenerate itself to fight other free radicals in your body.

Benefits:

•  GSH stabalizes other Vitamins that allows them to do their job. While certain antioxidants work with certain part of the body, GSH provides support to all parts of the body.

•  GSH is anti-inflammatory.

•  Protects and strengthens our immune systems to fight bacterias and viruses effectively.

•  Slows down aging. Many researchrers have found that aging relates to diseases such as heart failure, stroke, Alzheimer's disease, arthritis, Parkinson's disease, and cancer. When your GSH level is high, it mops up the free radicals that caused harm to the body and cells. 

•  Improves the condition of skin, hair, and nails. It allows the collagen in our skin to stay active preventing it from premature skin problems. It also gives the skin a glow by keeping it moist, supple, and inflammation free.

•  Creates resistance to UV radiation. 

•  Supports your detoxification process of the body.

•  Increases energy in our body. GSH enables the cells to be fully charged, enhancing muscle strength and endurance. It is actually in the whey protein shake.

•  GSH helps repair damaged cells. Our body is constantly under environmental toxin attacks, which cause free radials to enter the body stealing electron from other cell, which can in turns attack the nearest stable molecule. It then, becomes a cascade effect with hundreds other nearby molecules. This mutate process is also known as cancer. GSH helps to prevent this from happening, because it also repair damaged DNA by replacing the missing electron. A high level of GSH reduces the number of cell mutation in the early stage. 

Risks and Side Effects:

•  Taking glitathione in a reasonable amount appears to be safe.

•  It should be avoided in people with milk protein allergies and those who have organ transplant.

•  Though it's good for your body, women who are pregnant or breastfeeding should not use it.

•  Do not inhale glutathione if you have Asthma, it can increase some asthma symptoms.

•  In Asia, it is said to create some skin whitening as a side effect.

Sources:

Glutathione - Wikipedia

Glutathione: Uses, Side Effects, Interactions and Warnings - WebMD

Glutathione Information - MedicineNet.com

Glutathione: The Mother of All Antioxidants | Mark Hyman, MD - Huffingtonpost

Glutathione: The Great Protector - Experiencelife.com

What Glutathione Is and Its Important for Your Immune Health - ImmuneHealthScience.com

What Is Glutathione GSH - Glutathione.wellwise.org

Methods of Taking Glutathione

There are different ways to increase your consumption of this wonderful antioxidant. I think everone of us should be aware of the name "glutathione," not only it is for skin whitening but it is also for anti-aging and for your health in general. Being aware of it at a young age, helps to set aside a healthy living life, which in returns help preventing chronic illness in the long run.

1/  Eat a lot of sulfur-rich foods: such as broccoli, cabbage, kale, cauliflower, watercress, garlic, and onions.

2/  Bioactive Whey Protein:  this is an awesome source of cystein and amino acids. The Whey protein that you get, make sure it is bioactive (MUST) and contains non-denatured protein. That means the milk is non-pasteurized - no hormones, pesticides, or antibiotics.

3/  Excercise to boost Glutathione level:  excercising moderately helps to improve your detoxification system, enhance your body's antioxidants, and thus boost your immune system.

4/  Oral Glutathione:  the most popular form is the glutathione pills. To achieve skin whitening/lightening result, depending on your skin tone, generally it is advised to take from 1200 - 2400mg per day. However, you will need to take other supporting antioxidant supplements to maintain the glutathione in your body, otherwise it'll just be flushed through your digestive system before you could see any results.

5/  Antioxidant supplements:  taking other antioxidant boosters like alpha-lipoic acid, vitamin C, and cystein supplement. These will help keeping and enhancing the glutathione level in your body to do its functions, before it gets washed out of your body.

6/  Intravenous Glutathione (IV):  which means that the glutathione is directly injected into your bloodstream through your vein. It is by far the most effective way to take glutathione for skin whitening and in general. 

What exactly is Glutathione?

Glutathione or GSH in abbreviation is a water soluble substance. It is an important antioxidant in plants, animals, fungi, and some bacteria. It helps preventing damages cause by free radicals and peroxides. Glutathione is a molecule that is naturally produced by the body. It is a small protein consist of a group of 3 amino acids: Cysteine, glutamic acid, and glycine. 

Glutathione reduces covalent bonds by serving as an electron donor. During this process of converting, glutathione will be oxidized and called as L-Glutathione, as seen in some of the ads, which stands for glutathione disulfide (GSSG).

In common terms, L-Glutathione (GSSG) is pretty much the same as Glutathione. It is just a another name used for the substance while it is converting or converted. Glutathione exists in both reduced (GSH) and oxidized (GSSG) state. They regenerate each other because for every GSSG, two reduced GSH molecules are gained, which then they go on the scavenger hunt for free radicals in the cell. It is like a cycle, the higher level of Glutathione the more antioxidants you have in your body.

In short, an antioxidant like Vitamin C or B12 gives up their electron to a free radical cell and neutralizes that free radical cell, without becoming reactive itself. Glutathione is different! A reduced glutathione (GSH) will also give up an electron to a free radical cell and neutralizes them, but they also become reactive by binding itself with another oxidative glutathione cell.

I.e. When GSH gives away the H, it's only GS. Now, it will bind with another GS, so it can become GSSG - glutathione disulfide or L-Glutathione.

It is said to be the king substance of all antioxidants, because it provides multiple functions:

•  It is participate directly at neutralizing free radicals and other reactive oxygen - the toxins such as mercury and other heavy metal compounds that are negative for our health.

•  It maintains other antioxidants such as Vitamin C and E.

•  It keeps the regulation of nitric oxide cycle in balance, which is can be very critical for life.

•  It is used in metabolic and biochemical reactions such as DNA repairs, protein synthesis, amino acid transportation, and enzyme activation.

•  Therefore, every system in the body can be affected by the state of the glutathione, especially the immune system, the nervous system, the gastrointestinal system, and the lungs.

•  It plays a vital role in iron metabolism. 

I'm definitely not a chemical junkie. I have expained what Glutathione is and what its functions is (not talking about the benefits yet...) in layman terms. I hope this is enough specs of Glutathione for you to absorb. Look out for my next post in Glutathione Benefits!

IV Glutathione - Day 2

Today is my second time of getting my IV Glutathione. So excited!!! 😘 They had me on the 800 mg dose this time, higher than last time! It went really fast too!

This time, while she was performing the IV on me, i do feel a cool sensation where the second tube was injected in. After the IV, my arm does feel a little sore than the first time. It feels like I just had an intensive work out of my arm. LoL 😝😊

Some of the pictures of me sitting in the office. Again, no photoshop was done, it was just different lighting and angles.

(Note: I hate my zit. My skin isn't prone to acne, but when I do get one, it is really bad and it stays on my face for weeks!!! I really meant weeks... If not, months!!)

Indoor yellow lighting

3 different steriles.

With flash

Without flash

In the sun light. I still see a little yellowish tan in it!

Just a differrent angle


Alrighty, my next one would be on Thursday!