Still Exhausted? What Women Over 40 Need to Know About Glutathione

Are you eating well… but still feeling exhausted, foggy, inflamed, or like your body just isn’t bouncing back the way it used to?  In this powerful wellness conversation, Barbara La Pointe sits down with Kevin J. David (Wellness Expert) to explore one of the body’s most important but often overlooked wellness topics: glutathione — known as the body’s master antioxidant.

We discuss:
✔ Why a balanced diet may no longer be enough
✔ What vitamins actually do at the cellular level
✔ Why chronic stress can deplete your body
✔ Oxidative stress, aging, and women’s wellness
✔ Why energy, brain fog, and recovery matter more than ever
✔ Whether glutathione supplements actually work
✔ What your body may be trying to tell you

If you're a woman navigating stress, burnout, recovery, emotional healing, or simply wanting to age well with strength and vitality—this conversation is for you.

Interested in a private wellness meet-and-greet with Barbara and Kevin?
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All my love, 

Barbara La Pointe 

Certified Life Coach | Entrepreneur | Media Host 

Disclaimer: This podcast is for informational purposes only and does not provide medical advice. It is not intended for diagnosing or treating any health condition. Always consult a licensed healthcare professional before making health or wellness decisions.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:36

Hey, Holly and Bart, thanks for having me.

SPEAKER_00 0:39

Yes, well, you are an expert and so passionate about health and women's health and humans' health and men's health. But today we're talking especially to women because that's my audience. I'm so glad you're here.

SPEAKER_01 0:56

Well, you know, I I looked at your I looked at your page that you invited me to, and I and I really, I really want to applaud you for what you've started and for the group that you've got going. I think that it doesn't matter what the topic, what the what a person's passion is, uh, when you can actually have real conversation and make those conversions and helping other people, I think that that type of thing uh it goes a long way, right? Where people are in alignment with one another, uh, where there's a cultural fit or whatever that might look like. So I want to congratulate you on your page and and and what you're doing with your podcast. I think it's absolutely fantastic.

SPEAKER_00 1:36

Thank you. Thank you so much. And when we uh we've connected for a long time now, but I knew you were the perfect gentleman to come on and really help us unpack uh vitamins, uh nutrient, you know, getting nutrient depletion. Uh we're gonna talk about glutathione today. Most people know about antioxidants, and Kevin's gonna help us unpack all of that in a really fun way. So to start off with Kevin, most of us still in 2026 are told that if we eat a balanced diet, uh we should still get all of our nutrients. But is that actually true?

SPEAKER_01 2:14

Well, actually, you know, that's a that's the that's the $90 million foot view question, right? I mean, uh we getting what we're getting from food? You know, there's there's that been that fallacy for a long time where where where we understand um, hey, if we eat right, we're gonna we're gonna feel great. If we if we know something about food, you know, like look why do cultures, for example, in the Asian culture, why do Asians, for example, and I'm just gonna kind of relate this to a food food source as an example, but why do they do better? Why do they, in their main staple of food, uh, be around rice, for example, where in the North American diet, right? If you take a look at the food pyramid, going back to the edge of time, right? Um, you know, years ago, we were told what to eat at the top, the vegetables and all of these types of things, and down and below is the protein. And in fact, protein was the very bottom of it. We saw all the fish and all these things in the in that food pyramid as an example, what, 30 years ago, and then it changed about 25 years ago, and then slightly changed about 30 years ago, right? And then it went on and on and on and on to now where you actually have the food pyramid has been completely shifted upside down as an example. And really, uh, when you have protein at the top of the pyramid, as you know, as it's being shown now, and those carbs being down at the very bottom, right? There's a there's a reason for that, right? So, yeah, and I mean vitamins and minerals are the same way, it doesn't matter whether it's a a supplement uh that you get from your health food store or you get from a direct marketing company, or you know, you've bought it off of an Amazon site or whatever the case may be. How do you pick what those supplements are and what they look like for quality and for delivery? And that's really the key. That's the that's the whole point around uh why we supplement in the first place. Because what we get from our food today, uh it's there is very little nutritional value, right? Very little nutritional value from the food that we get today. And and that's why we have to supplement. It's not a well, what if I should, or you know, maybe I should. No, it's actually you should, because uh we know that we see food processing. We know that we've everything in in in like what do they say? Everything you buy in the outside aisle of the grocery store is probably healthier than you'll find in any aisle, right? Um with the exception of, say, for example, frozen vegetables or frozen beans or frozen carrots or frozen where they're flash frozen during the processing. So there's gonna be more, you know. I mean, think about that, right? I mean, they say, well, you know, is my banana ripe? You know, is my banana ripe and is it yellow? Well, to transport that banana, right, where you have calcium and so on, uh, and lots of calories, uh, they're high glycemic. The further that banana gets yellow, well, what do you think they're sprayed with from actually from the picking spot through the processing to our food warehouses and cold rooms across the country around the world? I mean, there are lots of chemicals that go into you know keeping product or keeping our fruit, our our vegetables, say fresh or colorproof. Does that make sense?

SPEAKER_00 5:48

Absolutely. Everything you're saying makes a lot of sense. And actually, even the soils, the earth that the food is grown in, those soils are also very depleted. And even though, you know, I think we're trying to get by day to day and do the best we can, but that's why I thought this was an important conversation, because really we have to supplement.

SPEAKER_01 6:08

Yeah, and everybody's a little bit different, Barb. I mean, you know, you might have a person that lives in Germany, for example, they eat a specific way. They're they, for example, whether it be fish or whether it be cheese. Well, they're getting they're getting protein, right? Both in cheese and their fish. And and why do they eat? Why are the why are people say for for example from Holland, why do they have that? It's it's a main staple. And the weird thing is is that their meals are almost rotated as well. They're eating more often through the day, larger meals in the morning, versus what you would call the North American uh pattern or our our staple time, which would be dinner, right? I mean, just take a look at uh how that works as well and and how your body can change uh from that. But yeah, I mean, we hear a lot about you know uh vitamins and minerals and you know what's going on at a cellular level and stuff like that. And you know, we we run low as as we age, we are running low in good um good oxid oxidative stress beaters. And what I mean by that is is that unfortunately from stress, and it doesn't matter whether it's work stress, personal relationship stress, it doesn't matter whether you know uh you something's bothering you at work or something's bothering you at the gym or whatever the case may be, stress is a key factor in oxidative stress as well. And that's really the basis of what I think most people should really be thinking about and taking care of themselves and not just worried about their partner. There are a lot of partners you can't fix, or a lot of partners that you can't uh that you can't tell anything to, you know, um, which is another topic altogether. However, um you know, when we when we look when we look for self-managing and we we look for um uh I call it self-management, uh uh you know, behavioral training, if you may. Um you know, what is it, what are those foods? What are those supplements that I'm actually taking on a daily basis that will help combat uh oxidative stress? And the reason being is that the more oxidative stress we have in our body, this is the reason we take vitamins and minerals and antioxidants, the more oxidative stress that we have in our body, guess what happens? We have issues around hormonal changes, we have issues around inflammation in every single autoimmune disorder disease today, known to all mankind, the one major play is oxidative stress. And that's where we'll get symptoms of symptoms of symptoms until we're diagnosed with a situation where um where we realize, okay, well, you know, we could have actually alleviated high blood pressure by doing these things in our in our younger years, but it's not too late to start, right? Well, I'd rather be on a natural supplement, I'd rather be on something that I know that harnesses that oxidative stress, something that decreases inflammation, right? And the right nutrition actually does that.

SPEAKER_00 9:26

Because, Kevin, wouldn't you agree that most people generally are thinking I need to take a good clean vitamin C, an excellent vitamin B complex, and and some other and some others, but um is that really enough? And what happens uh when we get depleted in these vitamins? Because some of us aren't even taking the basics. Um how does it impact our health? You've mentioned my group a few times, uh, and yes, we're 10,000 women strong, but when we can uh confront like the women in my group, this stress on a day, emotional stress, it actually depletes us physically. And if body, mind, soul. So if we if we're not strong physically, it's very hard to be strong mentally. It's very strong then to be hard uh strong emotionally. So I feel that everything's very connected. I do take the basics like vitamin C, B complex makes a big difference for me uh with my stress. I think most people agree that you need to take the basics, but um, what more do we need to be doing to help ourselves uh at the cellular level? And is that is it enough to just do that?

SPEAKER_01 10:40

Well, it's enough if you don't have any other choice, right? One of the big factors, right? It's a it's a big factor in mental stress. So, what is your choice? Either you get rid of that mental stress that you have, right, and bury it. Chances are you'll come back to it down the line because even though you think you've buried that stress, it'll come back and stress you out. It'll live in the back of your head, it'll live in your body, it'll live in your energy, it'll live in all parts of your mental you know, well-being, which is not good. Um, and that in turn creates other things. But you know, when we look at I'm I'll just talk really quick, you know, uh uh about you know, maybe into women's health uh hormones, whether it be a person is going through a woman's going through perimenopause or premenopause, postmenopause, these types of things. You know, the the nutrients, the nutrients that are required nowadays, in my opinion, um are all functional around uh the body's master antioxidant. And that's really the main one. That's what's affected on every single level, right? So, for example, some people have heard this, some people haven't possibly. Um, in fact, the two biggest uh things search today, uh according to Chat GPT and a number of the other uh focus areas to get your so-called information nowadays. It's supposed to make us smarter, it's making us lazier when you think about it. I I dislike, I should I try never to use the word hate, but I dislike using technology so much that yes, it's a convenient spot to go and grab something, right? Information-wise, but how do you know in fact that that's true? One thing I do know, there are two major there are two major topics today in wellness and in health. Number one, uh, they're saying peptides. Peptides is a big buzzword, right? Why is pep why are peptides a big buzzword? Because they've got peptide stacks on everything from sleep challenges to um uh antioxidant support to weight loss to weight management to hormone support. I mean, I just can't imagine. I'm needle phobic to begin with. I'd never make a good, well, I would never make a good drug dealer or a good drug user at all because I just get freaking right out on needles.

SPEAKER_00 13:11

I did not know that about you.

SPEAKER_01 13:14

So, you know, like I mean, you know, so peptides is a it is last month was number one in North America as a whole, right? Um, the education around peptides and and these types of things and what they do, chemical chemical conversions at the cellular level and what that's doing, for example, on uh example with regulating hormones or say blood glucose or something like this, right? So you can actually get a great peptide stack, right, and lose weight and feel great. The problem is it's very hard to get off of that kind of stuff, really hard, because you like if you think I understand how how how how addicts can become so uh reliant on their drug, their drug of choice. Well, when somebody starts losing weight at a rate that they can lose weight using peptides, right, there would be uh reason to stay on that product until you got to your healthy weight, but you can't just come off of that stuff, right? There's a there's a process on getting off, and and in that in itself, right, those chemicals, they are not they're not driven to be a natural way to delivering amino acids as an example, right? Uh, or tripeptides in in say glutathione. Glutathione is a is is a tripeptide, and the brilliance behind that is one thing, but the side effects are another thing. AZempic. I'm using the Zempic as an example here, okay?

SPEAKER_00 14:49

That's a good example because that's really in the current culture. We all we all see what the stars are doing with it.

SPEAKER_01 14:56

110. Well, I mean, have you ever read the side effects of Ozempic as a prime example? You can go blind. Uh, you can, I mean, there's a whole bunch of things that affect hormones on a not so good way. Uh, decreasing bone density, uh, I mean, you get that Ozempic look on your face, and then well, what about your bone density? As women age, right? As women age and they're into post-menopause, pre pre-postmenopause, their bodies are changing. Um, and I use that only as an example because it just blows me away that I can watch a hockey game at night and see three different peptide, uh, see three different peptide commercials all promoting something else. And the the very most important one that one can ever align themselves with is the second most searched supplement or or search today on Chat GPT, and that's glutathione.

SPEAKER_00 15:58

Okay, so Kevin, you've mentioned glutathione a couple of times now, and then you also mentioned antioxidants. Um, I just want to connect the dots. Are you saying that glutathione is a master antioxidant in our bodies?

SPEAKER_01 16:14

Glutathione is referred to as the body's master antioxidant. Yes, that's 100% dead on.

SPEAKER_00 16:20

Okay, and let's break it down because some of these words we hear them, but we don't really feel like we concretely know what they are, like peptides. But glutathione, what exactly is that for our listeners to really understand?

SPEAKER_01 16:35

Yeah, brilliant. Well, glutathione, glutathione has been with us since life. Since glutathione is in every living plant, it's in every living animal, it's in every living human being. We manufacture it through the whole God-given plan of living through birth, through growing up. And uh glutathione is the body's master antioxidant. So, for example, it is what controls every energy and chemical conversion at the cellar level. So when we have oxidative stress, glutathione is what is being used inside the cell. It's in glutathione is in every cell of the body, and it it has some specific um, there are some specific uh parts of glutathione that are really easy to um that are really easy to kind of uh apitulate if you want to call that. You know, one is immune system, like I often return refer to it as idea, right? Immune system reinforcement, right? Where immune our immune system is dependent on uh glutathione or GSH, okay, for proper function, particularly in the creation and maintenance of white blood cells, right? We all know, right, and and white blood cells are our first defense against infections and disease. So when we have loaded glutathione, it's safe to say, right, from the age of 30 on up, or it's you know, and I've heard many doctors and several scientists now that I've been in different lectures with just you know say, you know, from 30 on up, or from 40 on up, you know, at 50 you should have this. Well, what we've I believe at that point they're already looking at where disease is actually starting to um affect our daily lives, right? So it doesn't matter at what age you are, it's important that we are having a good, strong, you know, supply of of glutathione. Because when we don't, we have an inflammatory issue. You can guarantee it, it's in every single one. Lack of glutathione, inflammatory response. You have inflammation at some level, right?

SPEAKER_00 18:57

And inflammation is when disease can really take root in our body, is that correct?

SPEAKER_01 19:03

Well, that's when we're rec yeah, that's when we're recognizing, you know, that we have a problem, you know. Uh, it's just not, oh, why why do I have a sore knee? Well, my my knee's inflamed. Okay, well, why is your knee inflamed? You know, so instead of looking, uh I don't I've said this many times actually, uh, instead of treating the symptom, why not treat the cause? Why not identify what the cause is? Well, the common root cause, if you go and do a search, if our bodies have low glutathione, what type of responses do you think we would have? Like I'm I'm talking, it is off the chart. You know, hundreds and hundreds. Glutathion plays over 400 functions at the cellular level. And imagine that, right? From vagus nerve to hormonal to um it has everything to do with everything. Without it, without it, it without it you have inflammation, right? So in fact, it's not just you start noticing it at 20 or 30. Yeah, you're gonna notice it more at 40 or 50 or 59, like myself, as an example, because as we get older, we get sore, right? In some cases we get stiff. Like I'm not a real, I'm not a real, I'm not a gym rat, right? I'm fit, but I'm not a gym rat. Now I can go out and cut the lawn. Well, I know that I have, you know, I've got some inflammation. If I've pulled muscles, I've got some inflammation. What is the best way to reduce inflammation? Increase glutathione. Problem is, how do you pick it? What what's the process of even picking it, right?

SPEAKER_00 20:35

So, Kevin, I just have to slow this down just a little bit. Is it kind of like our bodies a car and glutathione is like the engine of our car?

SPEAKER_01 20:44

Yeah, one it's a great way to is a great way to position that. Um, you know, if you if you have a BMW as an example, uh, it says right on the gas thing, premium fuel only.

SPEAKER_00 20:57

I love that metaphor. Yes, we are BMWs, we are worshes, and we deserve the best. So glutathione, okay, bring it on.

SPEAKER_01 21:08

Yeah, so you know, under that hood of the car, if you go and put in regular fuel, let's just say standard diet, and you know, you you that standard diet or that standard fuel, not BMW, there's gonna be some problems. There's gonna be some problems with injectors because it's gonna be overall problems with power, there's gonna be all all of these types of things, and what you're putting into your body is like what you put into that BMW, and that's why they say oil change every 5,000 K, premium fuel, right? I mean, it's kind of bizarre. I mean, you know, uh you read a you read a manual in a car today, you can't figure out what it is. You practically need to go and do a YouTube search in order to find out where in fact the air filter is in your car, where is the cab filter in your car, right? It's kind of like searching for the right. Supplement. It's like searching for the right glutathione supplement, right? So my experience in glutathione supplement actually goes back to 1998. And you know, I look at where the industry has come and where we are standing now. You know, you glutathione could be delivered through um precursors, which is the primary way uh that glutathione has been delivered for a long time now, as a supplement, as an example. There are very few supplements that are glutathione precursors that can actually pass through the gut without being destroyed. Okay. Um pills and stuff like this, like there's whey protein uh dietary supplement that's a glutathione precursor. Proven, factual, it can get past the uh the glutathione itself, those precursors can build a structure around glutathione naturally, perfect science, right? Tons of clinical data. The challenge is that ramping up and bringing glutathione and getting it to the cell sometimes can be costly, number one. And number two, not just being costly, where are we really seeing where are those changes taking place? Are those changes in how we feel taking place on a slow basis? And do we just trust that we're feeling better? Or are we recognizing that we're feeling better? Are we recognizing that we don't have as much inflammation? Are we recognizing that we're not as tired? Are we recognizing that stress is not that stress hasn't been affecting our our our daily you know uh schedule as such? So, you know, it's and and and one of the terms in in glutathione also that's out there is a liposomal glutathione, right? And the liposomal glutathione is a fat fat molecule uh or glutathione molecule that is wrapped or surrounded in fat lipids, right? That's another way in the delivery. It's not a hundred percent, one hundred percent, it's not a hundred percent going to get to the cell, one hundred percent, not to the inside of the cell. So science has evolved. Uh there's a there's a an eight-year-old, an eight-year-old um delivery system was developed about eight years ago in Hydrostat, and it's the most effective way in in getting nutrients to uh to the body, period, because what we can what that technology has enabled been able to do is actually with water clusters and vibration of the water and energy in the water actually being ultra-purified, by putting glutathione in an ultra-purified water molecule, that delivery system doesn't go through the gut, it doesn't go through the esophagus, which a precursor does in both liposomal and uh and any other precursor type of thing. And um, you know, studies have shown, and most recently, studies have shown that glutathione can reach to the center of the cell within 30 seconds and 70 seconds to every organ of the body. That's a very strong statement, it's a very strong uh claim, if you might want to call it that. Um, and I want to say that you know it takes time, science has evolved. I mean, yes, I knew about glutathione back in 1998, right, as a supplement, as a precursor, you know, studied in it, thought through it, presented on it. Um that's one thing. But imagine what if there was a way that we didn't have to have a precursor? What if we could actually get that you know, food-grade glutathione, right, that is of like pharmaceutical quality to its max into the cell and address cellular destruction, right? Which is what's happening with oxidative stress that can help support the body's natural ability to doing what it's supposed to do with glutathione. And you know, I know that we I know that we're time uh time limited on your on your show today, but you know, just understand that glutathione is a see it as this it's the body's chief detoxifier. Really super simple. Everybody needs it. You know, if there was gonna be if there was gonna be a supplement that I would take and I only had one choice, it would be glutathione. Why? Because even I could even get some nutritional value and fiber and so on and so forth from food. I can get iron from meat, I can get, you know, whether it be steak, whether it be liver, whatever it might be, right? Um, but the other thing is, you know, in the um abbreviation under idea, glutathione is also an energizer, right? And each and every cell in the body um have these energy uh components, these energy and chemical chemical conversions, pardon me. And it's important that it's important that our body is functioning like that BMW, and that function is gotta be clean, it's gotta be clean fueled. So our body needs that glutathione. We it it just needs to have it just needs to happen. We can talk about that on another show as well, uh on another kind of expand on that. And um, and I think it would be probably a good idea you know for your listeners to all know, you know, they can always obviously get a hold of you, and um I mean that's that's one thing. I've uh I'm kind of putting together a computer program right now, a funnel. And I'm not used to working with funnels, just as an example. But you know, click on my name, and you know, up is gonna come information. People need to get a hold of you, they need to make contact with you. And for, you know, I do I do free consultation, uh, you know, half an hour free consultations all the time, um, whether it be through Zoom or telephone call or uh interconference call, what have you, globally. I operate in 74 different countries, uh, and I'm excited to I'm excited to help other people. Um, and there's a component, yes, of course, there's a component when you're in business for yourself, there's a component to making money, right? And in a lot of cases, people get so they're really they they'll walk into a health food store and they'll buy whatever the health food person is saying off the shelf, right? Um, but they don't know whether it's good or bad, what's good or bad for them, and they put their trust in that person. And we don't have a problem with the health food store making money because it allows them to stay in business. Where I'm where I'm segueing to is that many of the things that people are stressed about today, they don't make enough money. So there's a component to to what I do that will allow a person to make you know an amount of money, um, even just by using the product and or getting a discount, uh, this type of thing. So yeah, I don't know if you have any other uh questions in closing or what your thoughts are.

SPEAKER_00 29:13

I mean, everything you said resonated so so so much because that's why I wanted to have this conversation is so that we can actually give our listeners the tools to uh step into greater energy, greater health, greater vitality, and and the wellness that we all crave and deserve. Um, I've been buying supplements from vitamin stores for years, Kevin, and I know that a lot of them have just ended up in the garbage. After a while, I just get tired of swallowing them and then and I don't take them. I've done it for like the last 25 years, and I don't think that's an uncommon story. It's the our money kind of goes down the drain, so to speak. And also, I think we get overwhelmed when we go into a supplement store of what to buy. Does this supplement work well with this supplement? Do I need another supplement? And also it adds up, it's expensive. So to take something that is a high-quality solution, like the glutathione products that you're so passionate about, is an amazing opportunity. So I will have everything in the show notes, but how can people reach out to you, Kevin?

SPEAKER_01 30:24

Uh well, they can reach out by sending you a message, and and we'll we'll we'll we'll we'll be open in conversation. We can be open in conversation because we want to be transparent, right? And that's important because your friends are your friends, are your friends. And in order for your friends to trust in me, it's a good thing to segue so we have a group conversation, right? And if that person wants to have conversation independently, that's great, right? But that way people identify that this is just not, you know, uh an education thing. It's you know, it's you said it earlier, where real conversations, right? Where you can have those real conversations. I think it starts out in building relationships. I think it starts out in having trust and having vision and having the right mindset. And I think it's very easy for your listeners to communicate with you. And yeah, then it's just a matter of going to my calendar, pushing a button, booking a time in, and rock and roll from there.

SPEAKER_00 31:24

Yeah, I know Kevin and I would love to speak with anyone curious about this and maybe wanting to get a little bit more information. And let's be honest, you'd be in excellent hands with Kevin and myself together. We can figure it out and move forward. Kevin, I know you're going to come back. We're going to do a series of these talks on health. And um, it's been amazing to have you here. Thank you.

SPEAKER_01 31:49

Barb, you're doing an amazing job. Thank you for your time this morning. And uh, I look forward to our next meetup.

SPEAKER_00 31:56

All right, 10 for Barbara Jackie. I'm out. Barbara the Point of Healing Forward, and thank you for being here with us. Healing doesn't happen all at once, it happens in moments like these. Wherever you are in your personal journey, honor it. If this episode meant something to you, share it, leave us a review, and stay connected for more conversations. Move us forward until next time. I'm Barbara Apoint, and remember keep healing forward.