In a 2020 review, the researchers corroborated that silymarin's capacity to reduce oxidative stress on the liver could indeed improve biomarkers associated with conditions such as alcoholic fatty liver disease, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, alcoholic cirrhosis, and drug-induced liver injury.29 Although the studies covered in the review used 420mg silymarin doses, others have found that amounts as low as 200mg could also impart the desired effects on liver health.30 If that weren't all, a 2018 study concluded that silymarin may actually increase glutathione levels in the liver.31 Selenium (55mcg) Selenium is an essential mineral with antioxidant properties, and one that may increase levels of an enzyme called glutathione peroxidase (GPx).32 GPx is important because it uses reduced glutathione to neutralize hydrogen peroxide,33 one of the major ROS
The more glutathione in circulation, the better the body is at combating oxidative stress and preventing the associated diseases
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The extracts were centrifuged at 10,000 rpm for 10 min at 4 C, and the supernatant was collected and used immediately for the assay at a dilution of 1:10 in PBS/EDTA
However, the preceding sections of this paper establish that GSH is not merely a passive antioxidant, but an immune regulator and modulator with actions dependent upon the pathophysiologic context (Ghezzi, 2011) GSH acts to regulate the thresholds necessary for immunologic activation through redox-sensitive signal transduction pathways, influences antigen presentation and the development/differentiation of immune cells, and modulates the production of cytokines
