Re: NAC- bad reactionsto - information which may help some + a question

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Be real careful with NAC. I am one of the people that this stuff did

not agree with. At the time I took it I was very ill and didn't know

much about mercury and certainly did not know I had a big sulphur

problem. I took 4 caps of NAC in one day and took me 1 month to

recover from the side effects. It really hurt and set me back a good

couple of months that did. I still had amalgams in at that time.

This bad reaction to NAC was one of the signs that enabled me to

understand I had a sulphur problem. Was a painful lesson for me.

I can't answer your questions but this post may help

http://onibasu.com/archives/am/2470.html

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<< I will try this again...I am wondering about the connection

between glutathione and mercury toxicity. Can someone tell me if

there is a connection. We have begun a supplement due to overgrowth

of yeast and high citric levels, but I see glutathione mentioned now

with respect to toxicity. Thanks! >>

There are a number of connections and it is complicated.

Glutathione is your body's natural antioxidant and mercury is an

oxidation catalyst, so mercury uses up glutathione and leads to

reduced levels.

Glutathione has a thiol group on it which mobilizes mercury and

causes the mercury to be more toxic, so increasing glutathione levels

makes whatever amount of mercury is present be MORE harmful.

Thus there is a tradeoff, and you want the RIGHT AMOUNT of

glutathione for your body's needs. Not just more and more - you don't

want too much any more than you want too little.

Some people's bodies respond to mercury by making more thiol

containing things like glutathione and cysteine. For these people

they need to REDUCE their intake of everything sulfury to keep levels

down.

Other people's bodies respond to mercury by having low levels of

glutathione etc. and they need to INCREASE their intake of sulfury

stuff.

Mercury is excreted from the liver in bile while bound to

glutathione. Since liver glutathione levels are tightly regulated

this is not strongly influenced by eating more sulfury stuff - but

the extent to which the existing mercury can be mobilized and made

more toxic IS strongly influenced by how much sulfury stuff you eat.

Yeast is nourished by glutathione and other sulfury stuff. Sulfur

food restriction reduces yeast levels.

High citrate may be due to many things. Was anything else like

pyruvate, aconitate, etc. high? One thing that is often helpful is B

complex 3 or 4 times a day. Iron supplements are often also helpful.

Andy Cutler

PS iron supplements in the grocery store usually have a ton of red

#40 in them as well as lots of hydrogenated fats. Read the labels.

Also, iron is constipating for some people.

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Sunshine

>

> I was just looking through the files about NAC while trying to find

> ways to increase my glutathione conjugation.

>

> Now, first a question - it seems that NAC is not recomended if you

are

> trying to avoid sulphur foods. If this is the case then what can one

> do to increase glut. conj.?

>

> Secondly, I came across several posts about the NAC causing some

> symptoms such as runny noses and other stuff. I have recently been

> researching into Clamydia Pneumoniae (Cpn) and stealth infections

so I

> do know that NAC is very very important in this field. What I know

> about it in this area may well be important knowledge to some of you

> here.I will explain a little but my knowledge here is very new so I

> may not explain it perfectly:

>

> Cpn is a bacterial infection which most people get at some time in

> their life. For some it causes chronic ill health. It hides in the

> cells and has variousl stages to it's life cycle which is why it

isn't

> killed off by conventional treatment. It is also often undetectable.

>

> Several Docs are treating MS patients with a special protocol for

> this. And many others with CFS are finding benefits from treating it

> too. it's a complicated subject so I won't go on.

>

> But what is important is that on the protocols used to fight this

bug,

> the first thing they use is NAC. It is even sometimes used as a

trial

> to see if it induces symptoms assocoated with the Cpn being

affected.

>

> One of the things the Cpn produces are EB's (Elementary Bodies).

>

> What has been found is that NAC actually kills these EB's quite

> effectively. When they are killed, toxins are released and these

> toxins make you feel rough for days or weeks. typical symptoms are

flu

> like symptoms, sinus problems, coughing, runny nose etc.

>

> So many folk who have or believe they may have the Cpn, do a trial

> with the NAC to see if they have this reaction.

>

> Hope you are following!

>

> So the comments I am seeing on this group COULD be something along a

> similar line? In which case this could explain some of these

symptoms

> that people get when taking NAC.

>

> As I say I am new to a lot of this but I thought some of you may

find

> this interesting and want to research it further. I am also aware of

> the possibility that many of us with mercury poisoning have

infections

> such as this which cause problems simply because the mercury is

> mucking everything up and hopefully once the mercury is out the

immune

> system will work properly. One can only hope!

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