When it comes to your thyroid, few substances are more important than glutathione.
You can make the argument that nutrients like iodine, tyrosine, and iron are important for the thyroid gland, but they do something completely different from glutathione.
Glutathione is the master antioxidant that your thyroid gland uses to protect itself from free radical damage.
This may not sound like a big deal but it is.
Your thyroid gland is constantly producing free radicals because they are a byproduct of thyroid hormone production!
If you are not producing enough glutathione then you won’t be able to sufficiently neutralize the free radicals that are being produced by your thyroid gland.
If you can’t do that, then eventually your thyroid gland will start to damage itself which may result in immune cell infiltration and eventually permanent thyroid gland destruction.
For this reason, ensuring that your glutathione levels are optimal is very important if you have Hashimoto’s thyroiditis.
Hashimoto’s, of course, is an immune-mediated autoimmune disease of the thyroid gland which already results in damage and inflammation.
Thus, a low glutathione status will always make the problem that much worse.
The good news is that you don’t have to just sit by and let this happen.
There are many things that you can do to help your body and liver produce more glutathione.
And this glutathione can eventually make its way to your thyroid to help protect it.
