Brain Injury and Glutathione

[JuliaFaith]

This article struck me as very important, not only because my family has had several concussions but from the perspective of brain injury and how our body reacts to it seems to also cover PANDA??. Title of Article: "If You Give a Mouse a Concussion". Here is a thumbnail of what happens:

 

-A mild brain injury occurs (concussion or PANDAS?)

-Impact damages blood vessels lining the skull, causing some to burst or leak.

-The body responds, partly, by producing molecules called ROS, which mistake the injury for the intrusion of a foreign body.

-The ROS (useful for fighting bacteria infections) swarm around the injury and instead of healing cause damage by tearing up the glial limitans, the thin membrane separating the brain from tthe fluids around it.

-Fluid carrying ROS from the damaged blood vessels leak through the new holes in the membrane and come into contact with brain tissue, destroying it.

 

Anyway, the point of the research is applying glutathione immediately after the concussion, through the skull, reduced brain tissue damage by nearly 70%! Wonder if there is a cream glutathione? Would be interesting to try applying to the outer skull at the beginning of a PANDAS flair and see what happens. Can definitely see why this is a supplement often prescribed.