Glutathione, one of the most important antioxidants in human physiology, is found in every cell in the body
Where infiltration involves harmless fluids leaking into tissue, extravasation involves vesicant agents, medications that cause direct tissue damage when they escape the vein
In fact, when the amount of glutathione in our body decreases, it becomes more difficult to protect against diseases
The tripeptide has a donor-atom arrangement that binds copper(II) with high affinity under physiological conditions, and once that was appreciated it became clear that most of the reported activity tracked the complex rather than the free ligand
However, a recent randomized controlled study with 21 infertile men showed that a daily intake of 3000 mg of carnitine over a period of 24 weeks could not achieve an increase in sperm motility or the total number of motile sperm as compared to placebos