Posted by bleauberry on April 2, 2011, at 11:21:53
In reply to NAC causing low blood pressure?, posted by qqqsimmons on March 26, 2011, at 10:12:33
> i've only taken it for a week, no more than 600mg/d...but it seems like my equilibrium is a bit off, like i'm a bit light-headed and weak...anyone else get this effect or maybe it's not the NAC?
If it were me, I would back off on the dosage. In this case, 300mg is still too much. I would make it 150mg, 75mg, and even all the way down to 25mg. Then as my body gave me the green light would start increasing it.
NAC is one of the precursors to glatiathone, which is one of the primary ingredients of our detoxification system. Your symptoms could be temporary toxic overload....too much debris being released all at once. The liver, kidneys. and lymph glands can't keep up with the unusually heavy load, so we get a traffic jam. And thus the brain fog, tiredness andlow blood pressure. Cut way back on dosage, allow some catchup recovery time, and then begin increasing it back up again. That's how I usually handle something like that in my own journeys.
If things were that toxic, then that's good news in that you would know where to put a lot of emphasis in treatment, because it would likely be directly tied to all of your other symptoms you are trying to treat. NAC is good at stirring up or loosening up toxic molecules, but not strong enough in binding to hold them all the way to excretion. So that means some redistribution of the stuff, causing symptoms. At Vitamin Research Products you can get DMSA 25mg caps. I would empty them out and make custom doses of 6.25mg to start and take one every four hours. Later increase to 12.5mg, and finally to 25mg. Every four hours (half life). DMSA has a powerful bond of many substances but not all. Another good one to go in the cocktail is Alpha Lipoic Acid, at about the same dose as DMSA to start with, slowing increasing it over weeks and months.
Who knows, maybe recommended doses of NAC are just too much for your system. If so, then you don't need much to get the benefit of it. So again super low doses make sense. You can always increase later. For now, back it off and allow a few days to go by and see what happens before doing anything else.
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