Glutathione White Jade Treatment, commonly known as IU Injection

What is Glutathione?

Glutathione is a substance found in large quantities in various organs throughout the human body, including the liver, kidneys, and brain, and is a key antioxidant component.

This ingredient removes reactive oxygen species (ROS), mitigating cell damage, and reactivates the functions of other antioxidant substances like vitamins C and E. Through this, it can be seen to contribute to protecting cells and maintaining a healthy body.

Impact of Glutathione on Skin Whitening

In addition to its powerful antioxidant function, glutathione is known to play a role in brightening and evening out skin tone.

Inhibition of Tyrosinase Enzyme Activity

It helps inhibit the action of tyrosinase, an enzyme involved in melanin pigment formation, thereby suppressing unnecessary pigment production.

By inducing the synthesis of pheomelanin, which has a relatively brighter color, instead of eumelanin, which darkens the skin, it can contribute to improving skin tone.

Inhibition of Pigment Production through Antioxidant Action

When reactive oxygen species are generated due to UV exposure, heat, inflammatory reactions, etc., melanin production can be promoted. Glutathione helps prevent the occurrence of hyperpigmentation by removing these reactive oxygen species.

Complementary Action with Vitamin C

Vitamin C reduces oxidized glutathione, reactivating its function. This activated glutathione inhibits melanin synthesis, allowing for a complex action that helps with skin brightening.

In conclusion, glutathione is expected to bring about a natural and even skin tone change by inhibiting melanin production and inducing the production of lighter melanin.

Features of Our Clinic's Glutathione Treatment

Many people may have experienced glutathione through oral intake or intravenous injection. However, there are points to consider with these methods.

Points to Consider for Oral Intake (Edible Glutathione)

When ingested, its gastrointestinal absorption rate is relatively low, and most of it is metabolized in the liver, so the amount of glutathione actually reaching the skin may not be sufficient.

For this reason, it may be difficult to expect immediate skin brightening effects from oral intake alone.

Characteristics of Intravenous Injection

With intravenous injection, glutathione spreads throughout the entire body, making it difficult to expect concentrated effects on specific areas.

While it can contribute to improving liver function or systemic antioxidant effects, it may be difficult to achieve the desired concentrated effects for improving facial pigmentation or skin tone.

Our Clinic's Glutathione Treatment Method

Iontophoresis Application: Utilizes microcurrents to efficiently deliver glutathione components beyond the skin barrier to the dermal layer. This can complement the limitations of oral intake or injection methods.

Localized Intensive Treatment: Instead of delivering glutathione systemically, it helps it to be concentrated and absorbed into facial areas requiring pigmentation or skin tone improvement.

Use of Highly Concentrated Undiluted Solution: To fully deliver the ingredient's effects during treatment, we aim to effectively deliver glutathione's antioxidant and brightening functions by using an undiluted 100% pure solution ampoule.

Our clinic performs glutathione care with an approach of 'more direct than oral intake, more targeted than injection'.

Reasons for Choosing the Iontophoresis Method

Limitations of Oral Intake: Glutathione taken orally has uneven gastrointestinal absorption and undergoes metabolism in the liver, making it difficult for the necessary amount to reach the skin.

Limitations of Topical Application: The stratum corneum, the outermost layer of the skin, acts to prevent the penetration of external substances. Water-soluble ingredients like glutathione do not easily pass through this stratum corneum to be absorbed deep into the skin.

Advantages of Iontophoresis:

Electrical Repulsion Effect: Helps negatively charged glutathione components effectively pass through the skin barrier by repelling them with a current of the same polarity.

Electro-osmotic Effect: Microcurrents induce fluid movement within the skin, further expanding the pathways through which active ingredients can be absorbed.

Dermal Layer Delivery: Instead of just remaining on the surface, it delivers glutathione active ingredients close to the dermal layer, enabling more effective treatment.

Thus, iontophoresis can be utilized as a method to deliver active ingredients into the skin 'more directly than oral intake, and deeper than simple topical application'.

Recommended Treatment Cycle and Number of Sessions

Treatment Cycle: We recommend performing it at 1-week intervals.

Recommended Number of Sessions: Consistent treatment of at least 5 sessions may be necessary, and this may vary depending on individual condition.

Maintenance: Thereafter, regular supportive treatments can be expected to help stably maintain the improved skin tone.

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