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OT, I know, sorry for the all-medical post spree...
Thanks for the comments about NAC. Never heard of it prior to OOM mentioning it. Will have to get some. I'm not generally a fan of supplements, but one thing I can say from personal experience is about magnesium. A few months ago I started taking it daily, and I now sleep much better than before. I have vivid, movie-like dreams almost every night, it's pretty amazing. Like, I'm going to bed with an anticipation of the dream I'm going to have. The only supplements I take are magnesium (400 mg/day), zinc (22 mg/day), and vitamin C (1000 mg/day). The cocktail was suggested by a trusted doctor friend. I don't know if it's just the magnesium or the combined effect re. the dreams...
BTW, I was tested today and it turns out I have COVID-19... Already lost sense of smell and partial sense of taste (basically food tastes weird). Fever has completely subsided. Nose still runny (NAC could help here?). Positive line on test was deep red (high viral load). On top of all that, Bitcoin is ant-dipping again. What a great gift for Christmas & the New Year! Counting on the upcoming ETF thing...
Take good care guys. Prep your bodies and your spirits for the upcoming stratospheric pump.
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I heard good things about Niacin (and Glutamin), and about 8 months ago, I was trying to stimulate a discussion on the topic
by creating a thread, but I did not stimulate too much of such conversation, and I have been taking those as supplements since starting that thread, yet I am not sure if I feel any results from adding those two to my regime. I do already take vitamin C and I started taking Zinc recently too.. and gosh I hate to admit all of the supplements that I added recently, so it is not really clear if there are abilities to be scientific if too many are added.. and then a kind of wondering whether any of them are helping anything.
Glutamine? It's basically a neurotransmitter...in mono sodium glutamate form (MSG) causing severe headaches in some people, hence the "no MSG" label.
I am open minded re supplements and dabbled in them quite extensively 10 years ago, even found a combo that caused 20 lb weight loss (roughly 10-11%, which was quite a bit in pre-ozempic era) with nary side effects at first, but, say, two years later being on the "regimen", I started to feel that my life 'tonus' is diminished somewhat...it is difficult to pin it down, just feeling constantly a bit tired and less interested in everything, which is not typical for me, maybe, so I dropped the "regimen" and that strange feeling went away shortly thereafter.
I am sure that people have genetic differences and various supplements are more beneficial to some, but not all.
AFAIK, all large scale blinded studies did not show any clear benefit for basically any supplement.
At each individual level, I am sure there are almost miracle cases, but so far there is no science to create a "molecular fit" for a given person.
I try to avoid MSG, but that seems to be a different thing.
>>>>"Monosodium glutamate (MSG) is a flavor enhancer often added to restaurant foods, canned vegetables, soups, deli meats and other foods. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has classified MSG as a food ingredient that's generally recognized as safe."<<<<Generally speaking glutamine is an amino acid and helps with gut health.
https://www.google.com/search?q=glutamine&oq=glutamine&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyCQgAEEUYORiABDIHCAEQABiABDIHCAIQABiABDIHCAMQABiABDIHCAQQABiABDIHCAUQABiABDIHCAYQABiABDIGCAcQRRg9qAIAsAIA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8But Glutamine and glutamate do seem to have some kind of a relationship, so I am not going to try to unravel any of that here.. seems to be beyond my depth, but interesting to see that there is some kind of a relationship, and you are not totally off of your rocker, Biodom. A 2003 article:
Glutamine and glutamate--their central role in cell metabolism and function