NAC

[muffin]

Thought this to be a good read as I have seen so many questions about it and know a lot of people use it. I think I also posted the other one sometime back about kidney stones etc.

Read: www.newswise.com/articles/view/533011/

[Blossom/Jackie W.]

I don't much (if anything) about this stuff Arlene.....would it be the type of thing that maybe body builers or high intensity folks of gyms might use?

[muffin]

A lot of people use it for mucous. If you watch the other boards at all a lot of them take it. I put a link up about it on kidney stones on the one forum and they blasted me.

[Vic]

I saw the articles this morning and the thing that bothered me is that nowhere did they indicate any dosage amount which is necessary to trigger the problem. Overdoses of anything can be dangerous, also most medications have unwanted side effects. NAC works well for me and I sure would not like to stop using it.

As to Kidney stones, as long as you take an equal amount of Vitamin C as NAC, that should not be a problem. I also wonder if you have to be already prone to pulmonary hypertension to be able to have it made worse by NAC? So many questions at this time and so few answers. I hope they can determine a safe dosage for it -- Vic

[muffin]

Vic there is a link on top that says University of University of Virginia Health System, if you click on it you can contact them and I am sure they will gladly give out info.

[Vic]

Hi Muffin -- I don't think they can answer my questions since their results were based on research using mice.

What I was bothered about was that they immediately applied the results to humans without noting if the dosages they gave the mice were in reality overdoses...much the same as they did when they determined that artificial sweetener Cyclamate was harmful to rats. They gave the rats a daily supply of Cyclamate that was so high that if sugar was substituted, the rats would have died in a much shorter time from too much sugar. Cyclamate was subsequently banned and it has now been found to be less dangerous than the ones that replaced it.

It is a sort of feather-in-their-cap thing to be able to put a black mark on something. Just about every medication has a trade-off in side-effects, but telling just one side without determining the extent of how dangerous it may actually be is wrong.

I don't usually get this adament about something like this, but it seems every day, 3 or 4 more new things are poisoning us and 2 weeks later the same things are good for us. I uses 600 mg of NAC 2x-a-day...how does that relate to the dosages they gave the mice. Just like the ephedrine problems with the body-builders...they would use 200-300 mgs or more twice-a-day, while I would use one-half of a 25mg tablet periodically to clear congestion, but I can't get it any longer because of their abuse of it.

I guess this is just a rant and that's not too nice...I apologize. -- Vic

[muffin]

No apology necessary, I see what you are saying. ;D