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The basic lab tests dont go into the same detail as functional medicine testing

Figure 1: Chemical structure of Glutathione [source: Accessed: 10 Oct 2012] The presence of the reactive sulphydryl group (originating from the cysteine residue) gives rise to GSHs nucleophilic nature and so it reacts readily with electrophiles which can present high risk of toxicity to the cell by causing oxidative damage such as lipid peroxidation to cell membranes, and interfering with the activity of essential proteins and DNA synthesis

H 2 S, for example, can bind to protein metal centres, such as haem moieties in mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase or haemoglobin (reviewed e.g