A few years back when the H-1-N-1 flu made its rounds, I believe it was around 2009 some one on Free Republic, I believe it may have been a medical doctor suggested to take NAC which is short for N-Acetyl Cysteine and one shouldn’t have any problem with this particular flu and a flue shot would not do much better.
Needless to say it aroused my interest and I started to research NAC and found many beneficial properties, amongst it being a precursor to Glutathione (GSH) which is a tripeptide found in most of the tissues, especially in high concentrations in the liver, and plays an extremely important role in protecting hepatocytes, erythrocytes, and other cells against toxic injury and it declines as the human body ages.
Amongst other beneficial properties of NAC is that it is frequently used as an antidote if and when some one overdoses with acetaminophen and ends up in the emergency room; contained in such pain killers such as Ibuprofen, Advil, Motrin, Aleve etc. as it cleans out this poison, that should give you a hint of what NAC is capable of doing.
It also has been shown to be quite beneficial for people with COPD, in other words people with breathing problems and you will find many who swear by it. Another interesting item I came across was the suggestion to use about twice as much buffered ascorbic acid (vitamin C) as NAC. Not only is a large amount of buffered C good for the human body but it also will facilitate the disposal of any undesirable substances which NAC removed from the liver. Vitamin C also helps to reprocess glutathione by converting oxidized glutathione back to its active form. Linus Pauling who captured the Nobel Prize twice was a big proponent of Vitamin C and very rightfully so.
I have been taking it ever since I came across the information about NAC being a precursor to Glutathione and the many benefits associated with it and so far it has served me very well. For interests sake my daily intake along with many other nutrients and vitamins is about 2000 mg of NAC and about 5000 mg of buffered C.
And as an insurance not to end up with the latest virus you always can read up on BHT which will damage the majority of lipid covered viruses and by doing so will deactivate such viruses with the corona virus being one of them.
BTTT!