NAC--(N-Acetylcysteine) Potent Antioxidant and Anti-Inflammatory

[Music] welcome back this is dr jin sung where clinical excellence meets excellent results today we're going to talk about nac or n-acetylcysteine is a very potent antioxidant as well as a anti-inflammatory so we're going to discuss some of the foods the benefits of taking it what can it affect and some of the dosages that you can take to benefit from taking nac so the food sources are onions and garlic nac will go and convert to l-cysteine and with some sulfur-containing foods it will convert in the liver and make glutathione now glutathione is a very important antioxidant right it's one of the most potent ones that our body can produce so the benefits are that it helps the detoxification pathways right improves insulin sensitivity or insulin resistance or diabetes right so it helps blood sugar management also it's an anti-inflammatory it affects cytokines so things like tumor necrosis factor interleukins or nf kappa b it helps balance your immune system right so oftentimes we give patients glutathione for people who have autoimmune processes to help calm the inflammatory process and help calm the immune system the other one we talked about was pcos and that relates to the insulin sensitivity right brain it affects dopamine centers as well as excitatory centers uh for glutamate right dopamine is basically the pleasure neurotransmitter so if you can affect dopamine it will help with addiction bipolar disease depression ocd as well as anxiety and there are quite a number of studies on this how nac can benefit patients who have ocd and the anxiety level that comes with it glutamate the benefits of glutamate for some patients is that it will prevent or slow down alzheimer's as well as parkinson's disease over here okay another thing is it helps to thin out mucus in the lungs so if you have pneumonia or if you have um pulmonary obstructive disease right it can help thin the mucous and help the breathing aspect of these diseases as a matter of fact in the 1963 it was classified as a drug and they used it for lung disease right and they still use it for acetaminophen overdose or tylenol overdose because it could significantly impact the liver so they use nac as a drug basically now recently they've had issues with the fda and amazon basically removed all nac products off their site however it is still commercially available and can be bought through nutrition stores and nutrition shops okay so about dosages when we look at nac you can take anywhere between 600 to 1800 milligrams a day in divided doses it's best taken on an empty stomach however if you get things like nausea or loose stool then you might want to take it after your meal okay things that will enhance is things like selenium cordyceps and goto cola so with these combined nutrients with nac you can basically help to recycle glutathione and improve your antioxidant levels and improve overall health right because when you have a lot of oxidation and stress to our body what happens is tissues break down every cell in your body will take an oxidative blow and glutathione is what that protective shield is it helps you protect against oxidation as well as the inflammatory process so nse is a very important nutrient for a lot of different patients so with respect to let's say covet and you have lung issues or breathing issues or mucous in your lungs nac can be of benefit for those patients um who have a lot of lung and mucous buildup within within the uh lung structures right obviously they use things like prone stroke positioning to help release some of the mucus but as well as nac being utilized it would be the added benefit okay my name is dr jin sung where clinical excellence needs excellent results and we'll see you guys next week on the healthy side have an awesome day

Channel: Dr. Jin W. Sung

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Keywords: NAC, N-acetylcysteine, glutathione, NAC and depression, NAC and ocd, nac and anxiety

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Length: 5min 10sec (310 seconds)

Published: Thu Aug 19 2021