- Hi, I'm Don Mackintosh. We're in our series,
Total Community Immunity (Don chuckles) TCI, Total Community Involvement. But we're trying to help you in your fight against any
kind of disease or virus. And again, Dr. Nedley, the
President of Weimar Institute, Internal Medicine
specialist, is with us today. We're gonna talk about NAC? - Yeah, N-acetylcysteine. It's actually something that is available. Our bodies make it from actually the amino acid cysteine. And we can also produce
better glutathione levels through glutamine as well. And so several amino acids come together to increase glutathione levels which dramatically
improve our immune system. In addition, NAC can have some
anti-viral activity itself. It's been shown in vitro to do that. And so a very interesting
study was just cited recently. It was done years ago,
in of all places, Italy. They took people and they
had them take placebo and it was a randomized controlled trial, which is the best way to do something to see if they supplement or
a medicine's gonna work or not compared to placebo. And the group that was
randomized to the NAC, just 1200 milligrams a day, they came in contact with the flu virus just as commonly as
the placebo people did. But they found out that
if you were taking NAC, three out of four chance, you developed no symptoms from the flu. You developed an antibody, so it didn't actually prevent you from getting the virus into your system. - So you were exposed to it, but? - You were exposed to it, but you actually fought it off so well, you didn't develop a single symptom. And the placebo group, it was way down instead of
75%, it was down to 20%. So when you see that huge difference between placebo and the active agent, you know that this is producing
a very positive effect. It could have implications
in a lot of other viruses including the Corona Virus and COVID-19. And so it's just something very simple, it's very inexpensive. We've actually been utilizing it even in the hospital setting. It worked in the hospital as well. And NAC is actually available
in the hospital as well. - So they've adopted it? - A lot of doctors are not aware of it. They've adopted it in our hospital, in Auburn where I practice, and where we take care of
critically ill patients. But this information really
needs to go around the globe 'cause it's something simple, doesn't have side effects. It's not gonna have any
adverse effect for you and it is going to potentially
have a very positive effect. - Wow, you know, so
ever since you said that on that video that's kind of gone viral. I mean maybe that's not a
good term to use right now but, it's going all over the place and helping all kinds of people. You know, I started taking that. And you know, so I'm doing that. But you know, someone did
email us the other day and say, "Did you know that this
has maybe an interaction "with some medications
that are anticoagulants." Do you wanna talk about that at all? - Yeah, NAC really
doesn't have interactions. I mean it can interact with charcoal 'cause charcoal binds onto it. But as far as typical drug interactions, it might have some effect if
you're taking the drug warfarin just like spinach or
broccoli can have an effect and other foods. But even that seems to be
extremely minor if at all. But if you're on warfarin, you need to be checking
your blood thinning time whenever you make a change in your diet or a change in supplements or
anything like that anyways. But NAC has no known
interactions with the others. - All right, so it sounds
like something easy to do. Maybe that's what we should do. Maybe you should head down to
that store and get some NAC because this program is not just about what the doctor can do for you, but what you can do to
improve your own immunity. Thanks for joining us. (beeping) (air whooshing)
