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Asparagus Falcatus Extract: Has Health Benefits

Asparagus is long known to have the precursors to glutathione. As far back as the 1960′s, it was associated with curing cancer.

April 14, 2011 update: Asparagus officinalis, the asparagus we eat has cysteine (Biosci Biotechnol Biochem. 1998 Jan;62(1):28-33). The problem is that cysteine is fragile and easily destroyed when heated. Even a blender can destroy cysteine.

Asparagus Supplements

One of the visitors of this blog pointed out that Asparagus falcatus which is a species of the garden variety Asparagus also has some health benefits. Incidentally, you cannot eat this spiny fern which makes for a great house plant.

The extract from it however is rather interesting.

One study looked at the effects of an Asparagus falcatus extract on acetaminophen-induced liver injury.

The mice were given an overdose (by accident were sure) and were then were treated with Asparagus falcatus orally.

They did a bunch of tests and compared the effect of the plant extract with N-acetyl cysteine.

Results: The findings suggest that Asparagus extract inhibited the liver injury induced by acetaminophen.

Go to The Asparagus Mice Study to see the abstract.

Go to GlutathioneDiseaseCure.com to learn more about how to boost your GSH through supplements and more naturally through your diet.

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  • Jack

    Interesting. But I hate asparagus. I also hate pills. Now if there were just a way to make the asparagus taste better.

  • Admin

    Jack,

    I am with you. I hate pills and perhaps the only thing that could be worse than taking pills is asparigus.

    The important thing about this information is the part of asparigus that helps boost your glutatuione. It is the same thing that makes garlic, revistreol and so many other chemicals found in foods benefical to health.
    This is cysteine or that they boost glutathione.

    If in relative health, you can get it in foods. If in a disease state, you can get it in pill form (eeek) and in a powder that can be reconstituted in a drink and then bottoms up.

    Give me a shot of vitamins any day.

    Good health to you.

  • Vicjoe

    The genus asparagus has 300 species, only one of which is edible by humans, Asparagus officinalis. The mouse study referred to is about an extract of a spiny fern most common to S. Africa. Therefore eating ordinary asparagus has nothing to do with the extract in the study, which by the way is not commercially available. Therefore, given the title of this URL, “asparigus-lovers-eat-and-boost-your-glutathione/” aside from misspelling asparagus, is totally wrong in its implications and is a bait and switch to a site, http://www.glutathionediseasecure.com/, that pretends to discuss glutathione enhancement products objectively but subtly trashes all other sources than the MLM market scam Immunocal. Most people reading this will not have the botanical knowledge to realize they have been had again with this information. Mind you, Immunocal does work minimally (at an extreme MLM markup price and endless hype), but there are far better alternatives for much cheaper, and again, this “information” here has nothing to do with biochemical reality.

  • http://www.glutathionediseasecure.com Admin

    Vicjoe,

    You are absolutely right about the spiny fern which is the subject of the article. So as to correct any confusion, i also included the research that shows that the garden vegetable asparagus also has cysteine. And studies show that it has anticancer properties as well. There are also numerous phytochemicals that work as cofactors of glutathione.

    As a health care practitioner using immunocal in both the hospital, ordered by doctors and in private as a holistic nurse, my personal experience is that it is a superior product that truly works. Colleagues and doctors in the field of cancer treatment likewise have found it very effective in their patients.

    I do not use, nor do I sell Immunocal. I do not even profit from Immunocal or any of the MLM products. My experience as a scientist is that it works. So when you say GlutathioneDieseaeCure.com…” subtly trashes all other sources than the MLM market scam Immunocal.” I think you have not read the entire site.

    There are several glutathione boosting products on the market. I recommend all (with the exception of the crystals from Australia). I do not profit from any of them nor am associated with any of them.

    Also, the best way we can boost our glutathione is through diet. I am very adamant about this. So, when you write about bait and switch, I am not sure what you mean. Please elaborate.

    As to the URL with the misspelling, It is not on my site. If it was a former posting, it has been corrected. Maybe you found an an off site archived version of this post. If so, you are commenting on a page that was revised in 2009.