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as well as two common vitamins (L-Cysteine and Vitamin B12

Is this why there was such a big push to reclassify NAC n-acetylcysteine as a drug vs. a supplement? People already take NAC for the same purpose.

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Some shady pharma companies really, really, really do not want us to buy NAC as the cheap and harmless supplement it is because they want to sell it or related substances as medicine.

Look for "Possible Motives and Outcomes" under my link.

https://www.nutraceuticalsworld.com/issues/2022-03/view_colu...

AFAIK this was more because NAC was being touted as a COVID cure because of it's anti-inflammatory properties and being used in pneumonia

I could imagine people doing that. NAC was one of the many components I used in combination with the Isothiocyanates Sulforaphane and Myrosinase to trigger an immune response when I was a-symptomatic with Covid.

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