Paul Saladino· MD
besides making proteins methionine is particularly important for the production of anything with sulfur so taurine is important in the retina and the brain especially sulfate is important for detoxification it's important for regulating hormones it's important for producing sulfated compounds that help lubricate the joints and make things slide around easily it's very important to basically all your connective tissues and it's very important for even for cardiovascular disease as well because it helps regulate blood lipids and things like that and then also glutathione is the master antioxidant of the cell and it's a major component of detoxification and it's probably the single most important thing when you're talking about preventing asthma and not as asthma but glutathione status is the worse in diabetes and probably that is one of the major drivers of diabetic complications and actually even the process of diabetes risk