The Top 5 Benefits of N-Acetyl Cysteine (NAC)
The Top 5 Benefits of N-Acetyl Cysteine (NAC)
When it comes to amino acids, there are essential and non-essential amino acids. However, cysteine is considered a semi-essential amino acid.
How?
Well, your body can produce cysteine from methionine and serine (other amino acids). It becomes essential only when the dietary intake of methionine and serine is low. Essential amino acids can’t be made by your body so they must be obtained through your diet.
This particular amino acid is found in foods including chicken, turkey, yogurt, cheese, eggs, and most legumes.
N-acetyl cysteine (NAC), the key ingredient found in our C-19 Defense, is the supplement form of cysteine.
Consuming enough NAC is extremely important for a variety of health reasons. One of those reasons being that it replenishes one of the most powerful antioxidants in the body, glutathione. including replenishing the most powerful antioxidant in your body, glutathione. But what are some other key benefits of NAC?
The top 5 health benefits of NAC include:
Helps with detox or prevention of kidney and liver damage
May improve cognitive health
May help relieve symptoms of respiratory conditions
May improve fertility in men and women
May stabilize blood sugar
#1: Helps With Detox or Prevention of Kidney and Liver Damage
This supplement plays a key role in the detoxification process of your body. In fact, it can even help prevent certain side effects of different drugs and environmental toxins that would otherwise wreak havoc in your body.[1]
#2: May Improve Cognitive Health
NAC helps regulate levels of glutamate (one of the most important neurotransmitters in your brain).[2] While glutamate is required for proper brain function, too much glutamate paired with glutathione depletion can cause brain damage.
Crazy, right? But how does this affect the brain?
Well, it could contribute to mental health conditions including:[3]
Bipolar disorder
Schizophrenia
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
Addictive behavior
Glutamate is also involved in a variety of learning and memory actions. This means it could help different cognitive ailments as well. For example, Alzheimer’s disease slows down a person’s learning and memory capacity. Animal studies suggest that NAC may slow the loss of cognitive ability in people with Alzheimer’s.[4]
Another brain disorder, Parkinson’s disease, is characterized by the deterioration of cells that generate the neurotransmitter dopamine. Damage to cells and a decrease in antioxidant ability manifest into this disease.
#3: May Help Relieve Symptoms of Respiratory Conditions
NAC can relieve symptoms of respiratory conditions too. But how?
It acts as not only an antioxidant, but it also helps to loosen mucus in your air passageways. Individuals with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) typically experience damage and inflammation of lung tissue, which causes airways to constrict.
#4: May Improve Fertility in Men and Women
NAC plays an important role in fertility, too. In fact, many infertility issues with men increase when antioxidant levels aren’t able to fight off free radicals in the reproductive system.[5]
#5: May Help Stabilize Blood Sugar Levels
By now most of us know that high blood sugar and obesity are some of the key contributors to inflammation within fat tissue. Unfortunately, this can lead to the overall deterioration of insulin receptors which increases your chances of developing type 2 diabetes.[6]
Some studies done on animals have shown that NAC might actually be able to stabilize blood sugar by decreasing inflammation in fat cells, improving insulin resistance.[7]
Pretty cool, huh?
Take Away
The supplement, NAC, plays a key role in developing and maintaining optimal health. While it replenishes the body with the powerful antioxidant, glutathione, it also regulates the neurotransmitter glutamate.
These reasons are what make NAC an extremely valuable tool in preventing and improving a variety of different diseases we see in the world today.
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