It is an important water-soluble antioxidant that plays a role in protecting the body from free radical oxidative stress, which can lead to premature aging of cells
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Your gallbladder releases it to help digest food, specifically fatty foods
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Similar changes in oxidation state of GCL were also observed with other oxidative stress treatments, including cadmium exposure, inhibition of glutathione synthesis by buthionine sulfoximine, or the generation of reaction oxygen species via menadione (Hicks et al., 2007)