Did you know this nutrient highlighted a lot by alternative practitioners since 2020 is a synthetic supplement?
Some times taking a synthetic supplement can be a good thing. What are it's non-synthetic options?
I need to stop reading Agent131711’s substacks because he is using the same tactics that mainstream news used in 2020-fear. I am concerned that people will stop taking their needed nutrients in supplement form.
He did not tell people to stop taking supplements, but I found his posts on supplements fear-based and may scare people into discontinuation.
Even the healthiest people are going to need some supplements due to the toxic world we live in and lives filled with chronic stress.
I want to clarify something about synthetic nutrients.
While you do not want your supplements to contain additives, colorings, and so forth, some supplements are synthetic, which is okay.
NAC is Synthetic!
You probably are familiar with N-acetyl-L-cysteine (NAC). It has been widely promoted and found to be useful since 2020 for respiratory infections related to Cov!d-19.
NAC is used in hospitals for acetaminophen toxicity and is helpful for bronchitis, ulcerative colitis, muscle performance, liver cancer, asthma, Parkinson’s, and Alzheimer’s disease.
Did you know that the N form of L-cysteine is synthetic?
NAC is more absorbable and stable than the endogenous amino acid L-cysteine.
NAC can be found in some foods, such as onions (45 mg/kg) and garlic, which makes sense since these are two potent antimicrobial foods that are useful when sick with a virus, fungal, or bacterial infection. (Some foods with cysteine-not NAC- are chicken, eggs, turkey, and yogurt).
However, a typical NAC dose may be 500 mg thrice daily when sick. This would mean consuming a lot of garlic and onions daily, and if ill, you may not be up for that task!
I consider garlic and onions “superfoods,” but I don’t love them enough to eat the large quantities needed to get adequate NAC in specific instances.
A garlic product site stated that aged garlic capsules contain S-allyl cysteine (SAC), which your body metabolizes into N-acetyl-SAC. So, that may be a non-synthetic option. (Garlic is a blood thinner, so use caution if you are on blood-thinning medication.)
Therefore, NAC can be helpful for specific instances, whether you choose supplements or food.
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I've been curiously and quietly following yours and Agent's counter perspectives. While I'm glad you are both challenging the dogma pervading the supplementation industry (Which happens to have a lot of support from the pharmaceutical industry, as I'm positive your both aware of😉). We need people to understand the differences between not only the substances and their raw material origins, etc, but also how they work within the body, and pharmacological half-Life etc, and most of all the difference in qualities, standards, regulatory parameters (And capture). You are both doing a solid job at this, despite coming at it from sometimes different perspectives, research and personal biases. So props for that🎩👏💯👍
The reason I'm commenting is because I would challenge your statement re "...people would stop taking their needed nutrients in supplement form".
As a former supplementation advocate, non practicing Naturopath, turned health professional/organic farmer, I would have agreed with that statement absolutely, a few years ago. Couldn't find a person that didn't "need" a supplement, or good diet! 😉
However, since then I would come to reverse my stance to say that very few, if actually any individuals "need" supplementation as a regular practice. This is despite the constant bombardment of endogenous and exogenous toxicants, the malabsorption, generalised poor nutrition content via conventional and even organic agriculture, lifestyle choices and individual specific trauma.
The flat out reason is the body doesnt actually utilise supplements in the exact way that it does when acquired from diet, environment or endogenous production. Look at the nutritional/vitamin scientific literature. It's marginally better than the DEI or critical race theory science!- AKA bought and paid for by industry, and in large cases, insultingly low quality.😐🤔🤦♀️
We don't even understand the full extent of exomic impact on basic cellular mechanisms properly, the impact of the "newly discovered interstitium" (🤨🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️), or even freaking effects of photonics on mitochondria! Let alone the very institutional biased literature on orthomolecular or nutritional science.
I would hazard that perhaps instead of endeavoring to counter Agent's statements (or worrying about them), it would be better served to challenge your own dogma around supplementation. It's really not as it seems. Pretend it's "covid science" and go down the rabbit warren😉🤣😂
You may be surprised, you actually may not. But I can gaurentee that you will be the very best practitioner that you can be, and i am guessing that you are.😉
Agent may or may not do the same self analysis, but I think the "shock-jock" tactics are more important than a deeper reflection. Besides, at the end of the day, if an individual decides to discontinue a supplement regime or not, it is not actually within your' s or Agent's jurisdiction, scope. It's their decision as an individual with autonomous humanity, unless we are acting as a parental surrogate?!😐🤔🤨😉
With much respect and appreciation for you and your work.🙏🙏 🤗
A woman commented on my comment on Unbekoming’s interview with you and it seems like you might know more about this: “When they started adding vit D to milk it killed babies. Don't believe the hype about vit D. Please watch Dr. Garrett Smith's videos on you tube. "Vitamin D is a poison" and he also often discusses vit. D in his weekly livestreams, which are all available on his Nutrition Detective channel.
If you are worried about vit D, get a sunlamp, and start with short exposure to see what's right for you.” A quick search shows Dr Garrett warns about vitamin A too?