I just did a quick read on GlyNac. “GlyNac is thought to work because it contains both glycine and cysteine, amino acids needed for glutathione production. Older adults have been shown to have lower levels of both of these amino acids.”
I’ve been taking glutathione since the monomania of covid set in. I wonder if taking glutathione directly is different that taking GlyNac. I’d like to know your thoughts.
Our cells are made to produce Glutathione, this powerful antioxidant, directly where it's needed, but it needs those building blocks that we stop making, as we age. You see, it wasn't really known, but all of those “conditional” amino acids we can make, if we don't get them from foods? Well, we stop making enough and very key processes break down.
How do you get the Glutathione making process restarted? Take equal amounts of Glycine and Cysteine (NAC), at least 1,200 mg of each a day, seemingly no more than 600 mg of each at a time. Take them together. They migrate throughout your body and into cells exactly where needed and your cells work right, again.
The same thing is strangely true of Taurine, which we used to make, but supplementing just 500 mg of Taurine powder three times a day made Superoxide Dismutase (SOD), another powerful antioxidant, increase over 20% in our bodies in a study.
Who would have thought these were no longer properly being made by our bodies?
Take the GlyNAC and the Taurine separate from other foods, to better assure they get where they are supposed to go, and are not brought into some protein function. I do take GlyNAC with the Taurine, though.