I have a family member with a cancer diagnose and thought apart from healthcare do as much as we can ourself.
This is a short text paragraph about the effects of glutathione on cancer cells.
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Preliminary results indicate glutathione changes the level of reactive oxygen species in isolated cells grown in a laboratory, which may reduce cancer development. None of these tests were performed on humans.
However, once a cancer has already developed, by conferring resistance to a number of chemotherapeutic drugs, elevated levels of glutathione in tumour cells are able to protect cancerous cells in bone marrow, breast, colon, larynx, and lung cancers.
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Regarding the 2nd sentence does it mean that with elevated levels of glutathione the tumor cells gets protection against chemo ? What we want is chemo to damage tumor cells and not take a supplement to protect them...
Was thinking to start taking N-acetylcysteine supplement which raises glutathione in the body and keeping the bodies own strength against cancer at a possible max. At other places I read that glutathione protects healthy cells from both chemo and radiation therapy but not anything that it would protect tumor cells.
Been reading other articles as well but it's only this part that made me think differently.
Any comments ?