Type 2 Diabetes and Glutathione

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Diabetes is a disease that causes the body’s blood sugar (glucose) levels to rise. Sometimes this is also referred to as hyperglycemia. Type 2 diabetes is the most common form of this disease found in humans.

Type 2 diabetic’s bodies resist their own insulin; unlike type 1 diabetes in which the body does not produce insulin at all. The stress put on the glutathione (GSH) levels in the body of a person with type 2 diabetes seriously depletes its reserves and weakens the body’s natural detoxification mechanisms until not only many symptoms of the disease present but also the body is now susceptible to a whole host of other diseases.

Glutathione belongs to a group of detoxification enzymes that protect cells against toxins and oxidative stress. Oxidative stress produces cellular dysfunction that creates favorable conditions for the onset of multiple diseases including cancer and type 2 diabetes mellitus. Oxidative stress is a main feature of diabetes. It has been suggested that oxidative damage is the primary cause and aging and age associated diseases. Recent studies show that GSH deficiency is of great significance in the way the disease type 2 Diabetes Mellitus forms.

 

 

 

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22058002

http://www.diabetes.org/diabetes-basics/type-2