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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acetylcysteine
I've been using this supplement because of what I read on the internet somewhere. I'm taking several other supplements too. The Singularity guy ain't got much on me. I have two prescribed supplements by my rheumatologist to offset the side-effects of the chemicals he's murdering me with. I'm kinda trying to stop him by rebelling in small ways. It's a strategy I studied in the Wilhelm/Baynes translation of the Book of Changes. Sometimes I recognize where my strategies come from. Sometime I don't.
The documentation on this chemical "talks" to me in a favorable way. It might be killing me without my knowing just how. The paper trail of this supplement is inviting to me. The Wikipedia article is fairly conservative in the problems it can address.
One of the most interesting things this chemical/drug/supplement/whatever addresses has to do with sugar regulation. My blood work doesn't indicate that I have any outstanding indicators for diabetes, Diabetes doesn't seem to run in my family like arthritis does.
The dosage I'm taking is what's in the bottles I bought at the health food store. 600 milligrams per dose. I got two brands. One comes in capsules and the other caplets. This stuff has a uniquely unpleasant taste. I wash it down as fast as I can.
Its supposed to make schizophrenics and bipolar people more stable. Maybe that's why I've been able to discern a really saccharine sweetness to my coffee that pushes me to believe what I'm being made conscious of is that I'm using too much sugar for the balance factor.
Just now I finished my first of usually two cups of coffee I brew for myself each morning. I put one packet of Splenda (w/dietary fiber), and one level tablespoon (?) of refined white sugar into it. When I brought it back upstairs to where I have my computer, as I drank it, I noticed that overly sweet taste and it made me wonder if the NAC supplement was causing this saccharine taste.
When I went back downstairs to make some oatmeal and get a refill, I decided not to add any Splenda nor sugar to see how that affected this "sweet" taste. It was not there. I tasted for it several times and it didn't show up. The interesting thing to me, however, was that the taste of black coffee didn't make me yearn for the missing sweetness.
This might give me a ring-pass-me-not for while I've gone over the hump with sweet stuff. It might allow me to gnow when enough is enow in real time when I can actually do something about it. I just ate some Oreo Fun Sticks I bought due to TV advertisements. That sickly sweet taste I described earlier still lingers on my tongue. I wonder if NAC makes the taste buds more sensitive to overdoses of sugar?
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I do not attempt to tell the God's own truth here because I don't know what the truth is or hardly ever. I try to capture the drifting thoughts that randomly appear in my imagination for reasons I may not understand. I don't know if the content I capture with these words is true or false. The Comments settings are turned off to prevent me from having to defend what amounts to little more than fanciful, sometime crude speculation. Great moments in our lives never return.
