Vitamin C is widely known for its antioxidant power, but few realize it also has a very different role as a pro-oxidant that caught the medical community by surprise. 🍊
On the Low Carb Hustle Podcast, Dr. Nayan Patel explains how this function connects with glutathione inside the body.
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So rather than necessarily like you know eating some vitamin C, you’re talking about using like a glutathione precursor to help our bodies produce more of this master antioxidant on our own. Is that am I hearing that right? Well, until now that was the only way we can do it. Yes. If you think about vitamin C, vitamin C is actually not an antioxidant at all. Vitamin C chemically is a prooxidant. This is again a shocker to the medical community as well because when they first hear me out, I said, “Wait a second, explain me further.” Right? Vitamin C is actually donates electrons to oxidize form of glutathione inside your body because inside your body you have both a reduced form of glutathione that’s an antioxidant and once it gets oxidized it stays stable inside your body then oxidized glutathione will take energy from vitamin C and revive itself making glutathione again and that energy source that the vitamin C provides is what revives the glutathione and you see the benefits of an antioxidant benefits but it’s not coming from vitamin C it’s actually coming in from blue again. Interesting. Okay. I’ve never heard that before. I know.
