n-acetylcysteine has spiked in popularity over the past two years and there's good
reason for it one it's very inexpensive two the science shows that it offers
tremendous benefits to your overall health and then number three the fda has spoken out
against taking it in supplement form which made it more popular and a little bit controversial
hey wellness warrior i'm dr zyrowski and i have used an acetylcysteine for
a long time in both my personal life and in clinical practice and the reason i really love it
is because it offers such great benefits to your overall health you can take it on a daily basis
in low doses and as i mentioned before it is very very inexpensive compared to many other
supplements out there that don't offer you near as many benefits that cost a lot more money so
let's dive into some of the benefits that n-acetyl cysteine can actually offer you now the first on
our list is going to be it will boost glutathione in your body and this is a tremendous benefit what
you're going to find is that this benefit boosting glutathione will have a trickle down effect across
many systems of your body improving your health now glutathione if you're not familiar with it
is a powerful antioxidant it's considered the most powerful antioxidant in the body and very
important if you are depleted of glutathione you would die because that's how important it is at
keeping you alive now according to the research here one of the things it shows us is that nac
will help replenish glutathione stores in the body it'll also support this important antioxidant
so that it can fight off free radicals protect your cells from damage and even support tissue
healing now the other thing that it's been shown to do is help improve your immune health and also
contribute to longevity now you may ask yourself well if glutathione is so beneficial why not
actually just supplement with glutathione and not nac that's a good question now one of the troubles
with supplementing with glutathione itself is that your body won't use it very efficiently the
other problem is it's very expensive so trying to supplement with glutathione regularly would just
probably be out of budget for most people whereas you can take nac it's cheaper and that precursor
to glutathione will help produce more anyway so i'm a big fan of using nac to boost glutathione
within your body now the next benefit that it offers is it's going to support detoxification
and also support your kidney and liver health okay recently i just did a video on toxic kidneys i did
a video on toxic liver it's a big problem today because we are coming across so many environmental
toxins that are crushing people's health and people say to me all the time well dr zyrowski why
in the world do we have to detox we have these detox organs they take care of everything for
us but unfortunately our bodies were not designed to deal with the onslaught of toxins that we come
across in modern society especially today i mean people are dousing everything with chemicals and
cleaners and antibacterials and so we have to make sure that when these things are getting in our on
our skin getting in our bodies that we're really supporting our detox organs to get them back out
now as we look at n-acetyl cysteine it supports the body's detoxification process
in fact if you became you know toxic and you were poisoned and you went to the hospital they would
use an iv with nac in it to actually help support getting those toxins from your body and then also
it's been shown to reduce kidney and liver damage and work as a powerful anti-inflammatory so as we
look at n-acetylcysteine i mean my goodness it's already showing with just these two
things to be wildly beneficial for your overall health now the next area that n-acetyl cysteine
can really benefit your health all comes down to your brain health and that's a pretty important
one because n-acetyl cysteine has been shown to improve psychiatric disorders addictive behavior
and also slow the aging process on the brain according to the research and acetylcysteine
reduces oxidative damage to the brain cells it also slows the loss of cognitive ability
these are both natural with aging okay so if you can slow that process down that's huge we look
around to you know family or maybe friends that have alzheimer's and dementia it's a big deal
now if you can slowly nudge things in a healthier direction every single day using nac then why
not now the other thing that happens when you look at these psychiatric disorders out there
is that the brain becomes very unhealthy we get the neurotransmitters which are like hormones in
the brain they start to become imbalanced and then you start to get an inflammatory cycle in
the brain and that just spirals out of control and also the detox mechanism within the brain becomes
damaged okay now many people don't know this but your brain actually has the ability to detox
but if that mechanism becomes damaged you get this negative feedback cycle where it's like
you get inflammation that inflammation causes more inflammation and it can lead to psychiatric
disorders and acetylcysteine has been shown to help with bipolar disease depression people who
are suffering with anxiety people who have ocd so it's been shown to help with psychiatric disorders
simply i believe because it helps with the inflammation it helps balance those
neurotransmitters and then you get some better results when it comes to your brain health now the
other thing that nac does for your brain which is very interesting is it supports reducing addictive
behavior so if somebody is addicted to let's say cigarettes and nicotine it actually can help you
come off of that which is pretty cool okay and a lot of people do have addictive behaviors we tend
to think oh yeah you know that person on drugs or that person who can't get off the cigarettes
they're the ones that are addicted but at the end of the day almost everybody has addictive
behaviors around food around maybe it's caffeine whatever it is but they're very common and any
simple system can actually help with this now this is where things get a little bit weird i mentioned
before that nac is a little bit controversial and you're like how in the world could this be
controversial it's highly beneficial the research proves it you've mentioned many benefits so far
well it became controversial because the fda said well you know i don't know about this
n-acetylcysteine stuff maybe we should turn it into a drug because i don't think people should
be able to just get it over the counter and so as the fda made decisions like that major retailers
like amazon they went and pulled it and other major chain stores pulled it and no longer sell
it simply because they didn't want to fall under the scrutiny of the fda and it was a
very interesting time frame in which this all happened because it was right around the time
frame that there were some very compelling studies coming out showing that this is very
good for people who are suffering from the virus so during the pandemic the fda kind of put a hit
on this particular item here the n-acetyl cysteine and i'm going to show you why it is so beneficial
for your respiratory system which just so happens to be a place that this virus attacks violently
in many many people and by the way you still can get nac i'll put a link in the description below
to the nac that i use it's highly absorbable very good quality and i'm a big fan of it i take it
daily so as we look at your respiratory system nac has been shown according to research to relieve
symptoms of respiratory conditions it acts as an expectorant that basically means that it will help
loosen the mucus up in the pathways in the lungs and help get it out okay that's very important
for people who get a lot of congestion build up now the other thing that is going to help do is
it's going to help replenish glutathione which we talked about and that alone is going to help
reduce inflammation in the bronchial tubes and the lung tissue okay straight from the research and
this is interesting because we know if somebody gets this virus it violently sends a storm of
inflammation to the lungs now it also helps people with copd which is going to be highly beneficial
it helps reducing shortness of breath in coughing which is very important it will
reduce the exacerbation and lung decline which is also something that happens to people who
are very very ill from the virus there's a study that showed that incidence of complete recovery
from ventilator associated pneumonia was 56 using nac okay versus the placebo group was
which was like 35 okay what this one study showed is nac is safe and effective to prevent and delay
ventilator-associated pneumonia it helps keep people off a ventilator that seems pretty dang
good okay why aren't more people talking about this so here's another thing straight from a study
by thinning mucus in the bronchial tubes and boosting glutathione levels nac may help decrease
the severity and frequency of wheezing coughing and respiratory attacks so as i mentioned i don't
know why you know as we are in a place where many people are suffering from lung issues this would
be controversial but the fda deemed it so and like i said they wanted to make it a prescription
drug so i'm highly against that and i think that people should be able to get
very simple amino acids just like this in order to improve their health now another area that
n-acetyl cysteine has been shown to be very beneficial in is improving fertility in both men
and women that's pretty cool so a lot of women uh and men are facing infertility issues today
so you could use n-acetyl cysteine to hopefully help bring you back to a place where you could
conceive also it helps stabilize your blood sugar by decreasing inflammation you know whenever you
decrease inflammation in the body a lot of good things happen and even with your blood sugar
a lot of people think that like type 2 diabetes is just about eating right well
certainly it's about eating right it's about cutting out sugar but you also have to fix that
inflammatory component right so it's not just cut the sugar and everything's better you have
to decrease inflammation and acetylcysteine it's going to help boost glutathione which
in turn will decrease inflammation which could lower your blood sugar and help you fight off
insulin resistance and we know that there's over 100 million people who are unknowingly suffering
from pre-diabetes so i think this is a pretty good answer for them as well from what we've seen so
far and acetylcysteine has amazing benefits and i'm hoping that i'm convincing you to at least
investigate it for your own personal health now the next benefit of n-acetyl cysteine of course
is great too and that is it can reduce the risk of heart disease okay when we look at the top killers
of people today it comes down to heart disease cancer and type 2 diabetes and i'm talking people
dying prematurely it's like when you heard of the person who died in their 40s and 50s and they you
know the guy who had a heart attack when he turned 50 i mean this stuff is killing a lot of people
and so if we can do this one thing on a daily basis that will really help reduce our risk then
why not now according to the studies oxidative damage to the heart tissue leads to many problems
such as heart disease it causes strokes it leads to heart attacks and other serious conditions
and of course n-acetyl cysteine reduces the risk of this oxidative damage now it also improves
nitric oxide production which will help the veins dilate and it will improve blood flow throughout
the body that's another big thing that people complain about as they age you know my blood flow
just isn't as good now nac also has been shown to reduce the oxidative damage to your cholesterol
and that's something that is very important understand because a lot of people get freaked out
about their ldl cholesterol being high right but it's really not that ldl cholesterol being high
that's the big risk factor it's the oxidative damage that's happening to the cholesterol
it's the laying down of that cholesterol in the arteries the inflammation in the artery that
you have to truly be afraid of and so there you have it n-acetylcysteine will certainly
help improve your heart health now i highlighted before that nac has a really profound benefit
on your respiratory health and i found this to be very important because when people get the
virus today one of the things that typically leads to poor outcomes including death is
respiratory system failure people get put on ventilators we've read that nac can help keep you
off a ventilator get you off of a ventilator but beyond that as it pertains to your immune system
it also is worth noting that nac is very powerful for boosting and promoting good immune health as
well according to the research certain diseases associated with nac glutathione deficiency suggest
that immune function might be improved and potentially restored by supplementing with nac
okay nac has also been shown to restore and increase the amount of natural killer cells
which is very important for anyone trying to fight off anything whether it's a bacterial
infection viral infection you name it nac has also been shown to decrease the a viruses ability
to replicate okay so this is something that is very important for when you get a virus
within your body you want to stop that virus from thriving right so nac has been shown to support
slowing that down and then also nac has been shown by boosting your immune system to support
killing off the cancer cells if you are somebody who is suffering from cancer okay so the way i
look at it is nac is certainly highly beneficial it's something that many of us should consider
in our own health routine including that in and from there you'll have
good natural health you'll boost your immune system up so that you can fight off
anything that comes your way and you're not going to have to live in fear and you're going to have
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