We are continually inhaling and ingesting natural and synthetic acidic toxins whether we know it or not and they are unavoidable in these modern times both in our polluted cities and our poorly engineered food supplies. The role of antioxidants has a major effect on our bodies ability to produce the health and nourishment that it needs to eliminate acidic waste and to protect itself. But increasing levels of environmental pollution are more rapidly depleting the body's store of glutathione.
Our main organ of detoxification of acidic waste products is the lymphatic system and the liver where we find the body's most concentrated source of glutathione. Modern research has shown that individuals who have low levels of glutathione are susceptible to chronic illness. Why? Because studies show that low glutathione levels lead to poor lymphatic and liver function that cause more and more acidic toxins to circulate through the body resulting in damage to individual cells and organs. And this is why it's believed that the role of antioxidants like glutathione has an important role to play in the prevention and treatment of disease.
Clinical tests show that raised glutathione levels may address some of the eight major health issues of our time because glutathione provides the body with tools to fight off these threats naturally. Healthy people also benefit from elevated glutathione levels through an enhanced ability to fight off acidic toxins, disease, pre-cancerous cells and the aging process itself. Glutathione has been shown to slow down the aging process, detoxify and improve liver function, strengthen the immune system, and reduce the chances of developing cancer. The role of antioxidants like glutathione also works to help improve mental functions, increase energy, improve concentration, permit increased exercise, and improve heart and lung function.
Glutathione is found in every cell in the body, including the bile, the epithelial lining fluid of the lungs, and at much smaller concentrations in the blood. Our cells would disintegrate without it from unrestrained oxidation, and our body would have little resistance to metabolic acids, along with our liver shriveling up from the eventual accumulation of acidic toxins. There was a time when only scientists had heard of cholesterol and vitamins, but today everyone knows about them. Now the magnificence of glutathione has become so well known that in the last five years over 25,000 medical articles about this substance have been published, and the scientific understanding of glutathione is gradually becoming common knowledge.
Researchers have explored the role of antioxidants in good health as well as the treatment and prevention of diseases involving oxidation or fermentation by metabolic acids. The body itself manufactures its own natural antioxidants and the most important of these is glutathione. All other antioxidants depend upon the presence of glutathione to function properly and that is why scientists call it "The Master Antioxidant." Glutathione binds to toxins, forming a water-soluble complex that is ultimately excreted in the urine or bile as waste.
Elevated glutathione levels enable the body to produce more white blood cells, and it's the white blood cells that are the body's garbage collectors, and are the most important cells for maintaining sterility of the body fluids. A leading glutathione expert (Dr. Bustavo Bounous) says that the limiting factor in the proper activity of our lymphocytes (the white blood cells) is the availability of glutathione. In other words, healthy growth and activity of the white blood cells depends upon glutathione's availability. Put simply, glutathione is "food" for the white blood cells.
This starts to make a little bit of sense when we start to realize why Jesus Christ referred to himself as "the bread of life." Food must be eaten, digested, and assimilated to become part of our life that will give strength to our physical bodies. It is written that man shall not live by bread alone. Part of the reason this was written is because the Word of God is food for our spiritual life, and it operates along the same principle as our physical body that needs bread to sustain growth. The nourishment from food is a substance that does not come from within ourselves, but from without, because like the natural realm, the spiritual realm also needs a point of contact outside of the individual. We cannot live on our own feelings, experiences, or upon the sweetest words that come from within, which may excite, warm, or interest us, but cannot support, feed, or sustain our true spiritual growth.
In the new covenant, we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ, who entered into heaven itself to appear in the holy of holies, the sacred chamber of the heart of God's glorious presence for us. Jesus Christ is the promised seed and faithful High Priest, who fulfilled all the law, and is set between God and us because he is connected to both sides, and thereby he is able to work with God and with us. My mind boggles over God's heart of love, His compassion, and the tenderness to have Jesus Christ, who is the greatest food of all time, the bread of life, to establish a true and vital spiritual relationship between God and us.
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