> You think N-A-C (N-Acetyl-Cysteine) would be useful? NAC would be useful as a glutathione precursor, but there are a couple of strong reasons that it's used in emergency situations and not as a daily supplement.
First, although NAC does increase cysteine delivery to the cells it's treated as a toxin by the body. Complexing toxic cysteine with acetic acid as a carrier does not render it non-toxic. That's why at decent doses, in adults 500 mg per dose, it does produce some toxic effects and doctors who promote antioxidant use decided the trade-off wasn't worth using it as a daily supplement. Second, it has a very short half-life in the system, so dosing is frequent, on the order of every four hours, in order to avoid plummeting glutathione levels in between doses. This can be a disaster in an acute situation and also in an infection situation, as low glutathione actually stimulates infection. > I heard that is a cystine containing compound, and at > one time, it was purported to be helpful to those with > emphysema, but then that was retracted because they > couldn't agree on whether it really reduced mucous or > not. Glutathione delivered as a mist is OK for lungs, but because antioxidant depletion is a systemic condition I mentioned precursors first that would address it as such. The cold-processed whey and selenium is also the least expensive route, even if you also add the other antioxidants. > I guess I can look into the selenium and vitamins. > She already takes a daily multivitamin, with fair > amounts of common vitamins and minerals. It's not > flintstones vitamins or some garbage like that, and it > has no artificial anything in it. But I don't remember > if it has selenium. > > I've used Omega 6 Borage oil before for gum > inflammation and I know that stuff works for > inflammation. Do you think that would be useful? Personally, I don't recommend omega-6 oils for anything as they generally promote inflammation and supplementation is usually superfluous anyway. It's omega-3 oils that are usually in short supply in the diet. > Part of the problem to is that it is hard to get her > to take some medicines consistently. She can't figure > out how to swallow capsules yet, and thay would be so > helpful if she would, because so many of the herbs, > vitamins, etc, are just plain nasty tasting, and often > are not concealable. Cold-processed whey makes a nice drink a lot like a milkshake. Duncan -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com Silver List archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html Address Off-Topic messages to: silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com OT Archive: http://escribe.com/health/silverofftopiclist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@eskimo.com>
