How to: NAC Safety During Cancer Treatment

2 May 2024 · 1 min

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This content was created by Matt Kelly. This content was uploaded by Matt Kelly. This is a YouTube video titled "How to: NAC Safety During Cancer Treatment" (uploaded May 2, 2024) containing an informational medical explanation from a single speaker about N-acetylcysteine (NAC) and glutathione use in the context of cancer. The speaker advises obtaining cysteine from diet for normal cells, warns against continuous daily thiol supplementation because it may strengthen cancer cells, and recommends cycling NAC therapeutically (e.g., 2–3 days on, 3–5 days off) so the body and normal cells get bursts without constant elevation of the thiol pool.

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Because the normal cells require cysteine, you should rely on your diet for cysteine intake. And then like I said, with therapeutic glutathione, similar with N-acetylcysteine, the danger with thiols in cancer is not so much that you use them during a need. Danger is if you use them every day, all the time, and you keep raising the thiol pool with N-acetylcysteine in this case, And then you wind up marinating cancer cells and some of them may become stronger. So what we do with N-acetylcysteine therapies is give them as they're needed. Say it's respiratory or detox thing or something like that. We will cycle the N-acetylcysteine. And so what that means is we may give it 2 or 3 days and then give a break for 3 or 4 or 5 days. So then the body gets a burst of it, normal cells get a burst, and then we're not having it every single day.