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NAC: The Remarkable Supplement I Underestimated for Years I have a confession to make. For many years, I underestimated the value of N-acetylcysteine, better known as NAC. It wasn't that I thought NAC was unimportant. I simply thought I understood its primary purpose: to serve as a precursor to glutathione, one of the body's most important antioxidants. And since I had long been using S-acetyl glutathione, a form designed to deliver glutathione directly and effectively, I saw little reason to su …

When it comes to autoimmune conditions like rheumatoid arthritis, the standard medical approach is often to suppress the immune system with heavy-duty drugs—immune suppressants, steroids, biologics. But what if the immune system isn’t misbehaving so much as trying to adapt? A fascinating new paper just published in Medical Hypotheses explores this idea in depth, proposing a shift in how we view autoimmunity—not as a rogue malfunction, but as a kind of misguided adaptabil …