Max Health: Glutathione

Dr. Robert Keller, MD has been named as one of the world's 2000 outstanding scientists of the 21st century and has served on the scientific review panels for the National Institutes of Health and the Veterans Administration. He has served on the faculties of the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine, the University of Wisconsin and the Medical College of Wisconsin. He has published more than one hundred original articles in various scientific and medical journals and has been awarded several patents. Dr. Keller was elected to the Board of Governors of the American Academy of HIV Medicine and serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of the several biotech companies. The Consumers Research Council has named Dr. Keller one of America's top physicians in 2003, 2004 and 2005 in the fields of internal medicine, immunology and hematology.

Dr. Keller continues his medical practice and research activities at his clinic and laboratory in Florida and is Chairman of the Board and Chief Scientific Officer of Phoenix Biosciences, Inc.

"I went into medicine because I really thought it was the way to help people. I'd seen a number of my relatives ravaged by disease when I was a kid. I was particularly interested in science even literally from the time I was in grade school. I did my initial training in internal medicine and then rather than take a rather lucrative job in internal medicine, I essentially apprenticed myself to a mountain of a person in immunology and spent the next three years basically doing nothing but being in the lab.

We're privileged to treat a variety of patients, some of which have HIV, some of which have chronic fatigue immunodeficiency syndrome, some of which have fibromyalgia, a plethora of which have a variety of auto-immune diseases, some of which have been named and some of which haven't. We also treat patients who have already undergone therapy for
cancer. We do not do cancer therapy here although I am qualified in oncology, but we do kind of put back the system after the poisons have worked on the cancer so that the body can reconstitute itself and that they can again have some quality of life. We also deal with age management and how to get the body to function maximally using those 3 parts of the circle: the brain chemicals, the immune system and the endocrin or hormone system as a way of kind of recreating what you had when you were 20." (Dr R Keller, 2007)

Breakthrough Results so Revolutionary, it was Awarded a Composition Patent!

MaxGXL's proprietary formula represented such a dramatic breakthrough in raising glutathione levels, that the U.S. Patent Office awarded it a composition patent. Composition patents are normally reserved for pharmaceutical drugs. MaxGXL was awarded this patent because it not only raises glutathione levels within each cell, it also enables the liver to recycle the body's used glutathione to manufacture even more, further increasing the body's reservoir of glutathione.

N-acetylcysteine (NAC) N-acetylcysteine has proven to be the most efficient dietary source of glutathione precursor. It is a precursor and the main limiting factor necessary for the body to manufacture reduced glutathione. NAC is well absorbed by the intestine and readily converted by the mammalian cell (particularly in the liver) to glutathione".

Vitamin C: The absorption of N-acetylcysteine (NAC) and transport across the cellular membrane is facilitated by the presence of ascorbic acid (vitamin C). Vitamin C maximizes NAC transport across biological cell membranes and helps to conserve existing glutathione stores within the cell cytosol.

Alpha Lipoic Acid:The utilization of N-acetylcysteine within the biological cell to synthesize glutathione is improved by the presence of alpha lipoic acid. Alpha lipoic acid increases the cell's ability to make glutathione. It enables the key enzyme required for glutathione synthesis to work under optimum conditions and induces a substantial increase in intracellular reduced glutathione, Busse E. Zimmer G. Schopohl B, et al. Influence of alpha-lipoic acid on intracellular glutathione in vitro and in vivo; Arzneimittel-Forschung 1992;42:829-831; and Han D. Handelman G. Marcocci, et al. Lipoic Acid Increases de novo Synthesis of Cellular Glutathione by Improving Cystine Utilization, Biofactors 1997;6:321-338.

Sylimarin: Silimarin [milk thistle extract] serves to improve and restore liver function. It quenches free radicals, reduces potential toxicity, and stimulates protein synthesis necessary to create new liver cells. Also known as "silibin", "silybin" or "silybinin", Silymarin is a generic term for extract from the mature fruits of Silybum marianum (sometimes Carduus marianus), commonly known as milk thistle; Madaus AG publication: Legalon. Koln, Germany, 1989 and Valenzuela A, et al. Silymarin Protection Against Hepatic Lipid Peroxidation Induced by Acute Ethanol Intoxication in Rats, Biochemical Pharmacology, 1985:34(12):2209-2212.

Quercetin: is used for its ability to eliminate toxic compounds found in the liver. It has anti-hepatotoxic, antiviral, anti-inflammatory and antibacterial properties. Shakhova et al., Zh. Obsheh. Khim., 32, 390 (1962).

L-glutamine: is an essential dietary component for the support of gastrointestinal growth and function and it is utilized as fuel in the small intestines. It is used by the intestinal tract in large amounts for energy during periods of physiological stress. It has been shown to preserve liver glutathione after lethal hepatic injury and nourish tissues in the GI tract, liver and immune system; Souba, W.W., et al. The Role of Glutamine in Maintaining a Healthy Gut and Supporting the Metabolic Response to Injury and Infection. J. Of Surgical Res., 1990:48(4):83-91.

N-acetyl-d-glucosamine (NAG): is a key precursor in the biosynthesis of mucosal glycoproteins that form glycocalyx. The glycalyx is the most superficial, highly viscous layer of the gut mucosa that comes in contact with intestinal contents. The glycoprotein layer acts to protect the underlying tissues from exposure to enzymes, acid and bacterial assault while providing a selectively absorptive surface, Wilmore, D. W., et al, The gut: a Central Organ After Surgical Stress; Surgery 1988: 104, (5):917-23.