McCarthy, A
Xu D, Chen PP, Zheng PQ, Yin F, Cheng Q, Zhou ZL
The debilitating, slow damage created by high levels of blood sugar (glucose) destroys everything from your blood vessels to your eyes, kidneys, and nerves over time due to oxidative stress (remember the free radicals or reactive oxygen species (ROS)?)
110,111 Whilst duration of NAC supplementation appears to be important, another potential cause for some of the heterogeneity observed in clinical trials may be the length of time patients have been suffering from schizophrenia, with those with a history of schizophrenia for 20 years or more responding best to NAC
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Seifried HE, McDonald SS, Anderson DE, Greenwald P, Milner JA