Payam Hakimi explains how NAC boosts glutathione, your liver's main antioxidant. A better-working liver recycles steroid hormones like testosterone and estrogen, which can help with acne, infertility, low libido, and menopause.
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NAC is a precursor to another molecule called glutathione. And glutathione is one of the strongest antioxidants in the body. Its other function is to help with liver detoxification. It's one of the major molecules in the phases of detoxification in liver. So if we help liver detoxify itself, we're actually helping you to detoxify your body as well, because the function of liver is basically to detoxify the blood. Other functions of liver, one of them is to help with steroid hormone balance in the body or recycling. Steroid hormones are testosterone, estrogen, progesterone, dhea, pregnenolone, and cortisol. And these are major molecules in the body, Major hormones in the body. And how does this help us? It helps by balancing out the hormones. For example, in conditions like pms, acne that's related to pms, infertility, decreased libido, menopausal issues, weight gain, or if you want to create weight loss. And the most important thing, when we detoxify the body, in essence, we're detoxifying the cells, which basically means that we're retargeting cellular aging and cellular death.