Comment · Fri, February 11, 2022 · ND Owner
Glutathione Powder pH
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irlostrich · 3 points
Hi, does anyone happen to know the pH of the reduced glutathione powder? I ask because I tend to knock back powders with water lol, and the taste of this powder reminds me of phenibut HCL which is quite acidic and harmful to enamel.
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u/MisterYouAreSoDumb · ND Owner
Powders don't have a pH, as that is the definition of the acidity of an aqueous solution. Only aqueous solutions of things can be measured in pH, and those depend on the concentration of solute in the solution. If you put 100mg of reduced glutathione in 100L of water, that will be a different pH than 100mg in 1L of water. You'd have to pick a specific concentration of powder in water, then measure that. Then you could compare the pH values between the two solutions. That highly depends on the solubility of the two powders, though. I have not done this experiment in the lab yet, but I would imagine that reduced glutathione would be much less acidic in solution at the same concentration as phenibut HCL. Phenibut HCL is a hydrochloride salt. A 0.1N solution of HCL will have a pH of 1.1. That's very acidic. If I had to guess, a 0.1N solution of glutathione would probably be in the pH range of 3. So acidic, but not nearly as much as phenibut HCL.