Glutathione not only increases sensitivity to dopamine, but also to serotonin, which may explain why many of our depressed PD patients have a remarkable improvement. Describe the standard glutathione treatment regimen. We've been using glutathione for three years and have steadily increased our dosage. Now our standard dosage is 1400 milligrams mixed with saline and given intraveneously for ten minutes three times a week. It's digested very rapidly when given orally.
Intramuscular injections are somewhat effective, but it's minimal.
The use of milk thistle has been shown to cause retention of glutathione, so it is part of our program. Often times the patient's symptoms improve so significantly, we are able to decrease, sometimes significantly, the amount of medication they require. This is important because there are some side effects with those medications. Levodopa increases the level of homocysteine in the body and increases the risk of stroke and heart attack. So many treatments seem only to benefit recently-diagnosed patients.