Glutathione Skin Whitening Side Effects and Cost | How Effective is Glutathione in Skin Whitening

Glutathione is considered to be a miraculous skin whitening agent. So today in this video I made a detailed information on glutathione which will be very helpful for those who are actively looking for this skin whitening treatment. In this video we will discuss what is glutathione, how it is effective in skin whitening. As well we will talk about the side effects associated with the use of glutathione for skin whitening.

Hello everyone. This is Doctor sohail from DermaOne Clinic.So today's video is going

today I thought that I will make a detailed video on glutathione. We will discuss from

what is glutathione and how is it effective in these skin whitening. We will also discuss

the side effects associated with glutathione. Little bit we will discuss about the cost of glutathione.

So the first question that comes to my mind when I think of glutathione

is what is glutathione. So basically it is a peptide which is made from a combination

of three amino acids. Now, how does it work? So it has got three actions that it does to

cause the skin lightening. So first of all, as you all know it acts as a very potent antioxidant

it quenches the free radicals formed in our body and thereby it reduces the aging of your skin.

Before we start discussing the whitening effect of the glutathione that is first discuss

how the pigment in our skin is produced. So the pigment main pigment which is responsible

for our skin color is melanin.There are two forms of melanin: eumelanin and pheomelanin.

These two pigments occur in different proportions to give us a different color of the Skin.

So if somebody is having more pheomelanin then the skin color will be lighter. And if

the person is having more eumelanin, then the skin color will be little darker. So what

glutathione does is it reduces the formation of melanin pigment by inhibiting the most

important enzyme in the pathway. Glutathione also causes the conversion of eumelanin to

pheomeanin. Thereby causing lightning of the skin.

Coming to the sources of glutathione. Our body produces glutathione naturally our body has a most potent tax antioxidant in

the form of glutathione which helps us in winching the free radicals. Also, it can be

taken in the diet from our different dietary sources for example, fruits and vegetables.

The dietary source of glutathione can become important because with age the natural body

source of glutathione depletes. So to replenish and to make up for the loss of glutathione

these dietary sources become very important. Now, let's discuss the Journey of glutathione

as a skin lightening agent. Glutathione is a very old drug it is being used as an FDA-approved

agent for conditions, like chemotherapy and chronic liver disease and Alzheimer's disease.

But for skin lightening its use has started very recently. It has been seen that patients

with Alzheimer’s or chronic liver disease. They've been taking this drug for quite a

long period so the researchers also they observed that these patients also had the skin whitening

as a side effect of taking glutathione. So from there we started the research on glutathione as a skin whitening agent.

So now let's discuss how effective is glutathione as a skin whitening

agent. Skin color in humans is divided into six grades on Fitzpatrick scale.The grades

are from 1 to 6. So grade 1 being the lightest and grade 6 being the darkest. Indian skin

color usually you know falls between Grade 3 and grade 4. So glutathione as I've already

told you glutathione is not a FDA approved skin whitening agent. The skin whitening that

it causes will give you a difference of one to do shades, but it will not change your

skin color from one grade on Fitzpatrick scale to the other. When we talk about the starting

effect of glutathione. It'll give you a patchy effect in the beginning. Which will eventually lead to even tone and slightly lighter skin.

Now let's talk about the different preparations of glutathione

which are available in the market. So glutathione are is basically available

in three forms in the market: oral injectable and topical. Topical form is least effective

because the molecular size of internal is quite big and it is not able to penetrate

into the skin. Oral form is also less effective than injectable form because of poor absorption

and poor bio availability. Injectable glutathione is the most effective form of glutathione.

There are new guidelines available for the use of glutathione as a skin lightening agent.

There is a most commonly applied or used regime of glutathione in which glutathione injections

are given on alternate days. This frequency is gradually reduced to once in two weeks

injection. Once the desired skin color is achieved you can know always maintain glutathione

for the maintenance purposes. But it has to be understood both by the patient and the

doctor that glutathione free interval is required by the body. That is you cannot use the glutathione forever.

Now coming to the most important and most frequently asked question for how

long the result of glutathione will last. So basically the result will not last forever.

We will have to use something or the other for the maintenance purposes. This also has

to be kept in mind that glutathione free intervals are also required by the body.

Now let's discuss about the side effects of the glutathione. Side effects can be short term or long term.

Side effects are not many when it is used under the supervision of a qualified dermatologist.

Short term side effects, like patchiness of skin color and loss of hair color can happen.

There are no studies available to discuss the long-term side effects of glutathione.

Coming to the cost of glutathione as a skin lightening agent. It is an expensive drug

to be used as a skin lightening agent. At the end of this video, I would like to say

that you should always undergo this procedure under the supervision of a qualified doctor.

The aim of today's video was to give you a general or the basic information about glutathione.

But if you want me to make any more videos on glutathione, please drop the comment in

the comment section below. We will make more such videos on the similar topics.

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