{"id":10159,"date":"2025-06-30T13:58:06","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T13:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.truthforhealth.org\/?p=10159"},"modified":"2025-07-24T15:02:32","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T15:02:32","slug":"nac-big-benefits-beyond-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.truthforhealth.org\/es\/2025\/06\/nac-big-benefits-beyond-covid\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Tip from Dr. Vliet \u2013 NAC-BIG Benefits Beyond COVID!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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N-acetyl cysteine (NAC)<\/strong> is a supplement I started taking myself and began more seriously recommending for patients in 2020 when we learned about its many benefits as a supplement to help reduce severity and duration of symptoms with COVID illness.\u00a0 NAC has anti-viral, anti-inflammatory and potent antioxidant benefits because it helps replenish glutathione<\/em><\/strong>, the most potent antioxidant in our body.<\/p>\n

NAC is a supplement form of cysteine, a crucial amino acid found in high protein foods such as eggs, chicken, turkey, yogurt, cheese, raw sunflower seeds and legumes. NAC is described as a conditionally essential amino acid<\/em> because it can be made in the body if our diet is adequate in two other amino acids: methionine and serine. If our diet is deficient in serine and\/or methionine, then we cannot make cysteine, making it essential to take as a supplement.\u00a0 A deficiency of cysteine leads to many adverse effects on health.<\/p>\n

NAC has been a mainstay of my combination therapies used to treat COVID, Long COVID, and COVID vaccine injury. Research has since noted that\u00a0the pharmacological activities of NAC and its effects on the mechanisms of disease progression make it a potential therapeutic agent for COVID-19.<\/a><\/p>\n

Studies show that NAC is also helpful to reduce risk of Avian Flu by inhibiting replication of H5N1 virus and H5N1-induced production of pro-inflammatory molecules. NAC has also been shown to\u00a0inhibit replication of seasonal human influenza A viruses.<\/a>\u00a0Based on these findings, NAC has been considered an additional therapeutic option for new threats of viral outbreaks.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But there are MANY BENEFITS OF NAC BEYOND COVID! NAC helps prevent and reduce the severity of both bacterial and viral respiratory illnesses, it helps in\u00a0 diseases that cause cognitive decline, and NAC also shows benefit in improving fertility in men and women.<\/p>\n

NAC also plays a major role in our body\u2019s detoxification pathways<\/em><\/strong> to help prevent or diminish liver and kidney damage. Administered intravenously, NAC has long been a standard treatment in Emergency Medicine to combat Tylenol (acetaminophen)-induced liver damage to glutathione pathways.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Our bodies need continuous glutathione production<\/strong> to reduce the daily burden of oxidative stress and detoxification of toxins. Glutathione also supports our stem cells by protecting them from DNA damage and preserves mitochondrial health \u2013 both functions are critical in prevention of chronic disease, including CANCER.<\/p>\n

As we age, however, glutathione production declines, so the benefits of supplements that increase glutathione effectively, like NAC, become even more important as we get older. That\u2019s why\u00a0 NAC is a supplement I take myself every day as a critical ingredient of my Health and Resilience formula I have described on our website.<\/p>\n

In addition to supplemental NAC, it is important to have adequate folate, B6, and B12 for the body to be able to use serine and methionine to make the amino acid cysteine in the body. These important co-factors can be found in our TruMultiV\u2122<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0TruMultiV\u2122 with Iron<\/strong>\u00a0(also included in our\u00a0TruResilience\u2122 Formula<\/strong>).<\/p>\n

The many benefits of NAC are quite exciting, especially in today\u2019s environment of hyperinflammatory assaults from our environment, foods, lifestyles and even medical \u201ctreatments\u201d that cause inflammation and oxidative stress.<\/p>\n