The lowdown on n-acetylcysteine NAC

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N-acetylcysteine rapidly hydrolyses to water and free cysteine, starting as soon

as it hits your mouth. Free cysteine is toxic. Meanwhile, whatever the liver

sees of the non-toxic NAC balance does elevate glutathione. This benefit:damage

tradeoff is why in medicine, NAC is only used to prevent death by liver

liquefaction. The MDs use 1000 mg every four-five hours.

At the oral dose of roughly 500 mg every four hours, NAC produces toxic effects

in some people, but that does not exclude toxic effects that don't exactly make

you sick at the time.

NAC has a very short half life so the oral dose is repeated to prevent the brief

rise in glutathione from plummeting to below initial value, which according to

the research stimulates infection of all types, while simultaneously failing to

produce the cellular resiistance to toxins, infection, and free radical damage.

There's more: over 200 reactions in the body, and energy production itself,

absolutely relies on glutathione levels being adequate. For these reasons I

choose the undenatured whey, which elevates glutathione in a more sustained way

for about 8 hours. (all this implies adequate selenium)

This information was taken from Dr. Jimmy Gutman's well-referenced book

Glutathione: Your Body's most Powerful Healing Agent.

all good,

Duncan