From: Rafal Smigrodzki (rms2g@virginia.edu)
Date: Wed Nov 27 2002 - 07:18:04 MST
Robert Bradbury wrote:
> I haven't seen anyone post this. It looks like there may
> be some evidence for bilirubin being a very powerful
> antioxidant (even more than glutathione which is really
> rather shocking).
>
> Science Daily
>
> http://www.sciencedaily.org/releases/2002/11/021126073207.htm
>
> Johns Hopkins Press Release
>
> http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/press/2002/November/021125B.htm
>
> I haven't managed to find the PNAS article yet. Perhaps someone
> at a Univ. with access can figure out where it is located.
>
> At this time, I don't know anything however that would increase
> ones bilirubin production. (More hemoglobin perhaps? But that
> would seem to require more iron which is generally considered
> to be a pro-oxidant.) There is something not entirely obvious
> (at least to me) going on here.
>
### I am very excited and happy about this report - I happen to have
Gilbert's syndrome, an inborn enzyme deficiency which results in slightly
elevated levels of unconjugated bilirubin. Up till now this was only a
curiosity, something to tell the concerned PCP looking at my LFT's, but now
it looks like I won a prize in the genetic lottery.
Rafal
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