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How can you tell if your symptoms are a cold, the flu or the coronavirus?
https://www.pennlive.com ^ | Jan. 07, 2022, 7:02 a.m. | By VICTORIA MILKO

Posted on 01/14/2022 8:14:57 AM PST by Red Badger

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To: bramps

N-acetyl cysteine (NAC) is a supplement form of cysteine.

Consuming adequate cysteine and NAC is important for a variety of health reasons — including replenishing the most powerful antioxidant in your body, glutathione. These amino acids also help with chronic respiratory conditions, fertility and brain health.

NAC can relieve symptoms of respiratory conditions by acting as an antioxidant and expectorant, loosening mucus in your air passageways.

As an antioxidant, NAC helps replenish glutathione levels in your lungs and reduces inflammation in your bronchial tubes and lung tissue.

People with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) experience long-term oxidative damage and inflammation of lung tissue, which causes airways to constrict — leading to shortness of breath and coughing.

NAC supplements have been used to improve COPD symptoms, exacerbations and lung decline.

In a one-year study, 600 mg of NAC twice a day significantly improved lung function and symptoms in those with stable COPD.


41 posted on 01/14/2022 11:05:00 AM PST by Alas Babylon! (Rush, we're missing your take on all of this!)
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To: Red Badger

Right, go get an unreliable test that paints every virus with the same brush. The universal hammer for the universal nail.

Oh-my-chron!


42 posted on 01/14/2022 11:41:40 AM PST by Sequoyah101 (Politicians are only marginally good at one thing, being politicians. Otherwise they are fools.I ha)
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To: rktman

I got my “booster” and the regular flu shot at the same time (flu shot in left arm, booster in the right arm). The flu shot was the more painful of the two. Left arm sore for two days, nothing in right arm. No noted clot shot effects. The vision in my third eye is getting better.


43 posted on 01/14/2022 12:11:08 PM PST by Auntie Dem (Hey! Hey! Ho! Ho! Terrorist lovers gotta go!)
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To: Red Badger

2nd to last sentence:

“Getting vaccinated helps reduce the spread of the viruses.”

Thanks for the PROPAGANDA!!!


44 posted on 01/14/2022 12:47:45 PM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: Red Badger

If you can’t tell the difference, does it actually matter?


45 posted on 01/14/2022 2:33:54 PM PST by GingisK
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To: Alas Babylon!

How can an antioxidant, like NAC, protect against a virus, which is not an oxidant?


46 posted on 01/14/2022 4:02:15 PM PST by jonrick46 (Leftnicks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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It makes the mucus, especially in the lungs, less viscous, and therefore more easily expelled. Expelled mucus means expelled viri

Read up on it. I’m not a doctor, so all I can say is with NAC, I’ve had a lot less coughing and post nasal drip, which helps me sleep better. This benefit is something known from the pre-Covid days. My doctor told me about it.


47 posted on 01/14/2022 8:49:14 PM PST by Alas Babylon! (Rush, we're missing your take on all of this!)
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