Question: What is worse than an Ayush practitioner peddling pseudoscience to defraud people who do not know better?

Answer: An actual medical practitioner who scams people with scientific jargons and pushes absolutely useless therapies to make an extra buck.

And the best example in that nexus?
Dermatology and its money winner, injectable glutathione.

Lets dive.

Every cosmetologist or dermatologist [with their own clinic set up] would be happily giving out glutathione injections to “make your skin lighter” or as this Instagram “influencer” dermatologist with over 200K followers say, “for allergies and asthma.”

It is a scam. So much that Scam 1992 and Scam 2003 are nothing compared to Scam Glutathione.

Glutathione is a substance made from the amino acids glycine, cysteine, and glutamic acid. It is produced by the liver and involved in many cellular and molecular processes, including immune function – most importantly, it is a free radical scavenger reducing toxic cell and tissue damage, especially in the liver.

First, let me make it clear.
Glutathione is NOT recommended for the treatment of any disease condition or specific symptom by any clinical societies worldwide.

The use of Glutathione for skin lightening is a myth driven by lack of conclusive benefits and short lasting effects.

Highest level of evidence showed that glutathione is not beneficial as a skin-whitening agent and was only effective in some parts of the body without any long-lasting effects.
Read: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

Did you know that half of the total glutathione dose injected gets cleared from the body in 15 minutes?
So by the next day, nothing remains in the body. So what is the point of injecting every 2-3 weeks or even weekly? Just a waste of money and resources. It does not even raise red blood cell levels of it.
Read: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1907548/

The FDA Philippines (where glutathione has been in use extensively) put out a health advisory:
FDA Advisory No. 2019-182 || UNSAFE USE OF GLUTATHIONE AS SKIN LIGHTENING AGENT – warning the public on the dangers associated with the use of injectable glutathione. To date there are no published clinical trials that have evaluated the use of injectable glutathione for skin lightening. There are also no published guidelines for appropriate dosing regimens and duration of treatment. The FDA has not approved any injectable products for skin lightening.
Read: fda.gov.ph/fda-advisory-n…

Side effects on the use of injectable glutathione for skin lightening include toxic effects on the liver, kidneys, and nervous system including death. Also of concern is the possibility of Stevens Johnson Syndrome. Injectable glutathione is sometimes paired with intravenous Vitamin C. Vitamin C injection may form kidney stones if the urine is acidic. Large doses of Vitamin C have resulted in hemodialysis in patients with glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency.
Read: finance.yahoo.com/news/fda-says-…

Reconstituted low grade glutathione (you never know what you are getting) has been found to contain endotoxins that has led to severe side effects in consumers who received glutathione injections in dermatology clinins almost leading to death. The US FDA had warned about this. Glutathione is a dietary supplement and is NOT REGULATED.
Read: fda.gov/drugs/human-dr…

Given that glutathione affects the production of melanin (the pigment that gives the human skin, hair and eyes their color) — there are theoretical concerns about the long term skin cancer risk.
In spite of widespread reported use, there are no studies of injection glutathione use for skin lightening or of its safety for chronic use (for any indication). The switch from brown to red melanin production due to injections of glutathione may increase the risk of sun-induced skin cancers in previously protected individuals.
Read: Intravenous glutathione for skin lightening: Inadequate safety data
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27499402/

The only approved use for injection glutathione is for preventing nerve toxicity from cancer chemotherapy agent cisplatin.

The current clinical evidence of intravenous glutathione for skin lightening is limited to a single study with a dubious study design and apparently flawed analysis of results, casting doubt on the drug’s efficacy and reported adverse effects. Oral glutathione is safe, but is not effective in long term and is very expensive for continued use.
Read: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

Glutathione injections for cosmetic purposes is not approved, not regulated, is potentially unsafe, and is overhyped from aggressive marketing from pharma companies and scientifically-illiterate doctor-business(wo)men on the social media.

Oh and by the way, as this Dermatologist in the video proclaims, glutathione use has absolutely NOTHING to do with allergies and asthmas. She is just fear mongering about free radicles (a normal physiological by-product in our body) and pollution and smoke and what not. Shameful.

Want to increase glutathione naturally, without getting the dangerous injections?

Zero/low calorie, NON-ALCOHOLIC Beer.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18947976/
At least 85 grams of almonds per day
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18029489/

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