Comment · Wed, May 7, 2025 · ND Owner
Make L-Citrulline MUCH better by adding Glutathione
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Semtex7 · 74 points
TLDR: title
Ok, quick and dirty today boys (hopefully). I had mentioned somewhere that you can potentiate L-Citrulline substantially by adding Glutathione (reduced) to it and got a bunch of DMs. So I prefer answering this via one single post for everyone.
There are a lot of studies examining the Glutathione effect on nitric oxide and other relevant markers, but for this post I am not gonna analyze a bunch of them. I will focus mainly on one paper that is actually incredible.
(Here I delayed the post because the server of the journal went down and I didn’t want you to just trust me, I eventually got tired of waiting so I am linking the pubmed article on the paper)
We all know why L-Citrulline is better than L-Arginine - better absorbed by the body, yada yada, I will spare you the details as virtually all of you are familiar with them.
Glutathione is a low molecular weight, water-soluble tripeptide composed of the amino acids cysteine, glutamic acid, and glycine. Glutathione is an important antioxidant and plays a major role in the detoxification of endogenous metabolic products, including lipid peroxides. Intracellular glutathione exists in both the oxidized di…
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Apothacy · 3 points
Would anything compete for absorption?
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb · ND Owner