Nayan Patel

  • Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

Credentials

  • Ph.D. in Biochemistry

Education

  • Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry – University of California, Berkeley
  • Ph.D. in Biochemistry – Johns Hopkins University

Affiliations

  • University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
  • Johns Hopkins University

Research Focus

  • Aging and longevity
  • Metabolic pathways
  • Antioxidant biochemistry

Notable Publications

  • The role of antioxidant biochemistry in aging and longevity (2012)
  • Understanding metabolic pathways for a longer lifespan (2015)
  • Exploring the mystery of aging: The biochemical perspective (2018)

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Awards & Honors

  • Johns Hopkins Young Investigator Award (2011)
  • American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow (2016)

Key Contributions

  • Discovered a key metabolic pathway that influences lifespan in many organisms.
  • Identified a novel role of a specific antioxidant in slowing down the aging process.

Contact

npatel@mail.med.upenn.edu

Dr. Nayan Patel: Unlocking Glutathione Your Body’s Super Antioxidant | TUH #057
Exploring the Vital Role of Glutathione in Health and Wellness 0:16 0
“every single cell in our bodies contains GL trium it's manufactured by our liver but I feel like it's the mother of all antioxidants that most people have never heard of”

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Exploring the Vital Role of Glutathione in Health and Wellness 4:24 0
“the reason we don't talk about GL even though we have known for Glu for over 100 plus years is we have never figured out how to get inside your body so even though we inject it take a pill or inhale like I have a lot of athletes uh they'll inhale a gluathione or they may do a suppository or whatever you right whatever whatever they so they vaporize itap nebulize it and so they think that they're getting into the system but it's not there”

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Exploring the Vital Role of Glutathione in Health and Wellness 5:02 0
“the Glon uh and and you said right now most of the people have not heard about it because of the fact that people do not understand what it is and how to deliver that part but you talking about Middle America but even people that have very affluent we were recently at one of the award shows and literally 90% of the people these are high power CEOs have never heard of glue iron before and I was shocked to see that wait a second you have all the resources in the world yet you have no idea GL is”

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Dr. Nayan Patel: Unlocking Glutathione Your Body’s Super Antioxidant | TUH #057
Exploring the Vital Role of Glutathione in Health and Wellness 7:02 0
“gluathione actually helps with phase one phase two detoxification Pathways for making sure it activates the liver and basically helps get rid of all the chemicals we exposed to.”

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Dr. Nayan Patel: Unlocking Glutathione Your Body’s Super Antioxidant | TUH #057
Exploring the Vital Role of Glutathione in Health and Wellness 8:40 0
“if you have one of those Gene Snips that your body cannot metabolize or conjugate, you have an issue with buildup of all this medication in your body that it's actually working against you.”

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Dr. Nayan Patel: Unlocking Glutathione Your Body’s Super Antioxidant | TUH #057
Exploring the Vital Role of Glutathione in Health and Wellness 9:15 0
“the body activates those systems to produce gione now it needs three things right three amino acids M two enzymes and a catalyst like selenium to produce one molecule of gluathione.”

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Dr. Nayan Patel: Unlocking Glutathione Your Body’s Super Antioxidant | TUH #057
Exploring the Vital Role of Glutathione in Health and Wellness 10:31 0
“if you take too much glutathione you'll reduce your endogenous production the liver production of glutathione or that you should cycle on and off of glutathione supplements.”

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Dr. Nayan Patel: Unlocking Glutathione Your Body’s Super Antioxidant | TUH #057
Exploring the Vital Role of Glutathione in Health and Wellness 12:52 0
“balanced amino acid profiles are so important because then you give the liver exactly what it needs to assemble whatever protein it's going to assemble or you know go to the muscle and help repair muscle.”

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Dr. Nayan Patel: Unlocking Glutathione Your Body’s Super Antioxidant | TUH #057
Exploring the Vital Role of Glutathione in Health and Wellness 13:03 0
“if you just take the three amino acids as glutathione and you swallow it or you take it in a liposomal version or a sublingual version or what have your body's actually not receiving that glutathione your glutathione production may rise but that's because that glutathione is being metabolized in the liver assembled back into those three amino acids and return to the bloodstream as glutathione.”

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Dr. Nayan Patel: Unlocking Glutathione Your Body’s Super Antioxidant | TUH #057
Exploring the Vital Role of Glutathione in Health and Wellness 13:44 0
“the drug of choices NAC yeah nisine to revive you back and all it's doing is producing enough amount of glowe in there.”

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Dr. Nayan Patel: Unlocking Glutathione Your Body’s Super Antioxidant | TUH #057
Exploring the Vital Role of Glutathione in Health and Wellness 15:52 0
“I had to put a chemical cap on it because if I put any of the caps on it it just destroys the whole molecule and that's why all this all this eons of research on gluathione nobody could figure out how a chemical cap on it.”

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Dr. Nayan Patel: Unlocking Glutathione Your Body’s Super Antioxidant | TUH #057
Exploring the Vital Role of Glutathione in Health and Wellness 21:13 0
“I also notice when I take adequate amounts of methylfolate that I feel better and I can notice the days when I don't take methylfolate.”

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Dr. Nayan Patel: Unlocking Glutathione Your Body’s Super Antioxidant | TUH #057
Exploring the Vital Role of Glutathione in Health and Wellness 20:34 0
“I do have MTHFR so that's the issue. So most of my clients they have this gene mutation when they apply the gline they feel the effects of head clearing up within 15 minutes.”

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Exploring the Vital Role of Glutathione in Health and Wellness 21:45 0
“The energy that you noticed is ATP sparing molecule so I'm assuming you're in very good health internally and externally you look amazing but internally we are very good health and so when you're in very good health so most of athletes they have the same exact notice right they notice the increase in energy but it's not a caffeine energy.”

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Dr. Nayan Patel: Unlocking Glutathione Your Body’s Super Antioxidant | TUH #057
Exploring the Vital Role of Glutathione in Health and Wellness 24:56 0
“your supplements better absorption of your Foods better balance of the stomach acid and it feeds an entire class of bacteria in your gut”

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Dr. Nayan Patel: Unlocking Glutathione Your Body’s Super Antioxidant | TUH #057
Exploring the Vital Role of Glutathione in Health and Wellness 25:26 0
“we know now that it's going to help the cell eliminate waste and detoxify”

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Dr. Nayan Patel: Unlocking Glutathione Your Body’s Super Antioxidant | TUH #057
Exploring the Vital Role of Glutathione in Health and Wellness 25:46 0
“cellular metabolism is a dirty process it creates a lot of waste and you need to take the trash out”

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Dr. Nayan Patel: Unlocking Glutathione Your Body’s Super Antioxidant | TUH #057
Exploring the Vital Role of Glutathione in Health and Wellness 26:34 0
“if you have a gene mutation and you take a product that can deconstruct but they cannot reconstruct again now all of a sudden you have all this waste”

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Dr. Nayan Patel: Unlocking Glutathione Your Body’s Super Antioxidant | TUH #057
Exploring the Vital Role of Glutathione in Health and Wellness 27:41 0
“why can't you take folic acid because folic acid has to convert to methyl folate to get absorbed in your body”

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Dr. Nayan Patel: Unlocking Glutathione Your Body’s Super Antioxidant | TUH #057
Exploring the Vital Role of Glutathione in Health and Wellness 27:53 0
“the Pharm company has been given us folic acid for 100 plus years”

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Dr. Nayan Patel: Unlocking Glutathione Your Body’s Super Antioxidant | TUH #057
Exploring the Vital Role of Glutathione in Health and Wellness 28:28 0
“when they would switch to methyl folate simple switch to the methylated form of that nutrient Boom the anemia would go away right away”

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Dr. Nayan Patel: Unlocking Glutathione Your Body’s Super Antioxidant | TUH #057
Exploring the Vital Role of Glutathione in Health and Wellness 29:37 0
“skin is the largest organ MH it's exposed to theom toxins the most”

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Dr. Nayan Patel: Unlocking Glutathione Your Body’s Super Antioxidant | TUH #057
Exploring the Vital Role of Glutathione in Health and Wellness 31:18 0
“the indication is for skin lightning is that so that's something that came out of the Asian market and theyve been injecting GL with vitamin C every week injections for skin lightning and it worked it it does work”

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Dr. Nayan Patel: Unlocking Glutathione Your Body’s Super Antioxidant | TUH #057
Exploring the Vital Role of Glutathione in Health and Wellness 31:46 0
“somebody that's really dark pigmented could use high dose glutathione and vitamin C to actually lighten their skin”

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Dr. Nayan Patel: Unlocking Glutathione Your Body’s Super Antioxidant | TUH #057
Exploring the Vital Role of Glutathione in Health and Wellness 32:03 0
“when you use topical glow it didn't seem it doesn't seem healthy yeah it seem but if you use a topical version what it's actually doing is is removing all the de breeze out so if if you have those U oxidized U lipids on your skin that's com all the dark spots and when when that goes neutralized the skin gets all fair”

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Dr. Nayan Patel: Unlocking Glutathione Your Body’s Super Antioxidant | TUH #057
Exploring the Vital Role of Glutathione in Health and Wellness 33:36 0
“we have substantial albeit anecdotal evidence that it's very effective um because we'll we'll pull Labs on patients sometimes 10 to 12 weeks apart and we'll see patients with severely elevated liver enzymes and they respond very well to glutathione”

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Dr. Nayan Patel: Unlocking Glutathione Your Body’s Super Antioxidant | TUH #057
Exploring the Vital Role of Glutathione in Health and Wellness 34:42 0
“most people only need about 100 to 200 milligrams per day tce a day that's all they need 100 to 200 milligrams a day um trans dermal trans dermal okay compared to two two to 10 grams of IVs right it's it's is barbaric right and IV is Not Practical either”

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Dr. Nayan Patel: Unlocking Glutathione Your Body’s Super Antioxidant | TUH #057
Exploring the Vital Role of Glutathione in Health and Wellness 37:03 0
“toxicities in the environment is is rampid”

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Dr. Nayan Patel: Unlocking Glutathione Your Body’s Super Antioxidant | TUH #057
Exploring the Vital Role of Glutathione in Health and Wellness 38:04 0
“two molecules that is I'm passionate about right now one is NAD”

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Dr. Nayan Patel: Unlocking Glutathione Your Body’s Super Antioxidant | TUH #057
Exploring the Vital Role of Glutathione in Health and Wellness 39:12 0
“you can inject it well injected is is one one way of getting to the system but again my delivery system is uh my product is stable in my lab for almost four years now so I have a stable product now stable NAD NAD NAD Plus in my lab”

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Dr. Nayan Patel: Unlocking Glutathione Your Body’s Super Antioxidant | TUH #057
Exploring the Vital Role of Glutathione in Health and Wellness 43:51 0
“like if you apply a hormone cream you apply testosterone or or or estrogens or whatever we apply the it's there for a day right it's slowly slowly seeping in through the through the lipid layers and all those things”

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Dr. Nayan Patel: Unlocking Glutathione Your Body’s Super Antioxidant | TUH #057
Exploring the Vital Role of Glutathione in Health and Wellness 44:28 0
“those hormones testosterone is the is the main one um that they're putting on topically they're going right through the baby skin and right into their body and they can cause toxic reactions because you're you know you're talking about putting an adult dose of babies transdermal it's crazy”

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Dr. Nayan Patel: Unlocking Glutathione Your Body’s Super Antioxidant | TUH #057
Exploring the Vital Role of Glutathione in Health and Wellness 45:21 0
“so they come to me and said hey I have this patient so and so with this issues can do the hormones can you do the endocrine hormones they can do the nutrition plan and all the the medications that taken can you make a complete package so that that we not duplicating drugs making sure it's very everything is streamlined and see what the plans are so that's what I design”

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Dr. Nayan Patel: Unlocking Glutathione Your Body’s Super Antioxidant | TUH #057
Exploring the Vital Role of Glutathione in Health and Wellness 48:50 0
“if you're on a Statin you definitely need to be taking CoQ10 because statins will reduce the CoQ10 and so you should therefore supplement with it.”

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Dr. Nayan Patel: Unlocking Glutathione Your Body’s Super Antioxidant | TUH #057
Exploring the Vital Role of Glutathione in Health and Wellness 49:04 0
“if you're on Methotrexate you should be taking meth folate because it interrupts that pathway.”

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Dr. Nayan Patel: Unlocking Glutathione Your Body’s Super Antioxidant | TUH #057
Exploring the Vital Role of Glutathione in Health and Wellness 49:57 0
“these people are losing weight they're losing the ose tissue edus tissue is actually sequestering all your toxins in your body and holding it and now we're letting it go.”

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Dr. Nayan Patel: Unlocking Glutathione Your Body’s Super Antioxidant | TUH #057
Exploring the Vital Role of Glutathione in Health and Wellness 50:42 0
“to make that happens they got to drink lots of water.”

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Dr. Nayan Patel: Unlocking Glutathione Your Body’s Super Antioxidant | TUH #057
Exploring the Vital Role of Glutathione in Health and Wellness 50:48 0
“make sure they eat fiber they they had to have the proper diet.”

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Dr. Nayan Patel: Unlocking Glutathione Your Body’s Super Antioxidant | TUH #057
Exploring the Vital Role of Glutathione in Health and Wellness 51:13 0
“if you're using those toxic cosmetic products uh that's another issues too.”

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Exploring the Vital Role of Glutathione in Health and Wellness 51:56 0
“a lot of these endocrine disruptors and hormone disruptors that are and chemicals um and synthetics that are in these um makeups that are highly unregulated are having demonstrative effects on these now.”

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Exploring the Vital Role of Glutathione in Health and Wellness 55:49 0
“a daily regular dose 200 milligrams of glutathione applied topically day or night is not going to have any long-term detriment effects on endogenous production”

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Exploring the Vital Role of Glutathione in Health and Wellness 56:15 0
“this topical version if you take too much of it it's straight available bi available to your body... your body can actually go from oxid stress state to the opposite which is reductive State and so that is not healthy.”

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Exploring the Vital Role of Glutathione in Health and Wellness 57:55 0
“most of us have a very difficult time meeting our protein needs and certain protein sources like whey protein and others can be as little as 20% absorbable. This is 99% absorbable and it has all of the essential amino acids that the body needs to build lean muscle to recover to improve our exercise performance and most importantly to repair after we have intense exercise.”

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Dr. Nayan Patel: Unlocking Glutathione Your Body’s Super Antioxidant | TUH #057
Exploring the Vital Role of Glutathione in Health and Wellness 1:01:22 0
“if we reduce neural inflammation that would be a good thing in all of these kinds of conditions like autism and ADD and ADHD and Alzheimer's and Dementia and any other neuropathic condition of the brain I would assume can benefit from reduced neural inflammation.”

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Exploring the Vital Role of Glutathione in Health and Wellness 1:04:35 0
“I just read a study on heavy metal toxicity in Hashimoto and how there is an enormously High prevalence of metals in within the thyroid in patients whose immune system is attacking the thyroid.”

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Exploring the Vital Role of Glutathione in Health and Wellness 1:05:24 0
“we had done a 34 patient trial we were hired by this company out of Japan they wanted to do a heavy metal detox Japan has a lot of metal toxicity even today's State and so they wanted to do something with gluathione to do a detox studies of course everything passed only thing they could not pass is who's going to apply this stuff sticky stuff on the arms every day so they kind of I would if I had heavy metal toxicity especially in my brain yeah I'm bathing it you know.”

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Exploring the Vital Role of Glutathione in Health and Wellness 1:08:02 0
“we saw a reduction of of the MD which is oxy stress markers with four hours”

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Exploring the Vital Role of Glutathione in Health and Wellness 1:09:46 0
“glutathione would result in less sick cells metabolically six cells”

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Exploring the Vital Role of Glutathione in Health and Wellness 1:11:20 0
“how many people get to see on the other side of chemo healthy functioning with no side effects”

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Exploring the Vital Role of Glutathione in Health and Wellness 1:13:44 0
“I think we rarely try to support healthy waste elimination and detoxification and I mean at a cellular level when we're talking about pathology and disease we're just so narrowly focused on what the pathology is what the disease condition is and we don't look at the consequences of the body's own waste elimination Pathways being compromised.”

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Exploring the Vital Role of Glutathione in Health and Wellness 1:14:21 0
“the body says no I I can deal with my own problems just give me the nutrients I need and I'll take care of it.”

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Dr. Nayan Patel: Unlocking Glutathione Your Body’s Super Antioxidant | TUH #057
Exploring the Vital Role of Glutathione in Health and Wellness 1:15:21 0
“the GL Revolution why it is truly a revolution because if you understand what Glen does glut thing is just empowering your body it's just empowering your body to do what it's supposed to do and when you do that part you're not solving the problem for the body you're just giving the ammunation so the body's going to do everything on its own you're just hey just feeding them with the nutrients that the body needs and just sit back and relax and enjoy the body.”

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Exploring the Vital Role of Glutathione in Health and Wellness 1:22:19 0
“I want it to completely be free of medicine, free of every single thing that is not natural to humans.”

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Dr. Nayan Patel: Unlocking Glutathione Your Body’s Super Antioxidant | TUH #057
Exploring the Vital Role of Glutathione in Health and Wellness 1:23:30 0
“Especially for those of you that have the MTHFR gene mutation or other gene mutations that interrupt glutathione pathways and cellular waste elimination.”

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