The Medical Advisor

NAC – An Over-The-Counter Supplement That Works Better Than Medications While I don’t believe there will ever be a pill you can take that will make you stop skin picking or hair pulling, there is a supplement that might help you reduce the behaviors, if you are one of the lucky ones for whom it works. N-acetylcysteine (NAC) is an amino acid and a precursor to glutathione, the master antioxidant in the body. Low levels of glutathione in the body are implicated in numerous mental and physical health conditions and diseases. It is possible that glutathione is the most important molecule we need to stay healthy and prevent disease. Functional medical doctor Mark Hyman, MD says nearly all his chronically ill patients are deficient in glutathione and that the ability to produce and maintain high levels of glutathione is necessary for recovery from chronic illness. While glutathione is expensive to deliver in an effective manner, NAC is readily available  in capsule form . Besides in...

It's a sign of advancing age. Some call it a sign of wisdom. It varies from person to person and seems to run in families. Some do everything they can to mask it or use some other method to make it go away, while others barely notice and simply go about the business of living. What is it? The way of the gray. Gray hair has been, for want of a better phrase, "the way it is," since the beginning of time. Like taxes and that other thing we won't mention, "earning" gray hair is inevitable for the vast majority of people. Proverbs says, "Gray hair (in the King James version it's 'hoary head') is a glorious crown; it is found in the way of righteousness." This observable fact has been linked to  aging  since humans lived long enough to experience the privilege. The alternative is generally undesirable. They've said it was genetic for years. But is that really the case for hair that turns gray prematurely or otherwise? Science says it'...