2011-03-26

Gustavo Bounous

Gustavo Bounous

Gustavo Bounous is a research medical doctor in Montreal, Canada.

He was born in Italy. He was educated at the University of Turin and at the University of Genoa. Then, he worked as a research fellow in surgery at the Indiana Medical Center. In 1963 he moved to Canada. He became a professor of surgery, successively at the University of Sherbrooke, 1973–1985, after that, at McGill University, 1985-1993.

Research development

In 1978 he began research at McGill on a dietary protein source that would boost immune system performance. Bounous contends that a deficiency in the protein glutathione is linked to several diseases, and that a lack of innate cysteine that inhibits glutathione production.

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