Posted by bleauberry on April 21, 2010, at 17:47:51 [reposted on April 25, 2010, at 0:29:15 | original URL]
In reply to NAC (N-Acetyl-L-Cysteine) side effects?, posted by Lilliable on April 20, 2010, at 21:01:53
All the meds you are taking makes things confusing enough. NAC makes it even more confusing.
NAC primarily beefs up the body's detox system. If you have some heavy metals, you're stirring them all up. Some are making it to the gut, where candida thrives on metals and sulfur. Not coincidentally, symptoms of candida overgrowth in the gut mimic every psychiatric disease we talk about here.
No one knows the complete extent of NAC's role in the body or what supplementing artificial amounts of it will do. For that matter, no one even knows what the drugs we are taking really do.
Without trying to figure it all out, probably the best thing to do would be reduce the dose to the lowest tolerable dose...whatever it is, no matter how small...and only ramp it up higher once you are accustomed to a certain dose. That means you will have to utilize tricks to make custom size doses. For example, don't laugh, starting with 2mg is not a joke. Some people starting a similar substance, alpha lipoic acid, can only tolerate 2mg at the start. A year later they can take 100's of mg with no problem.
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