N-acetylcysteine is a supplement that helps your body make more of a natural antioxidant called glutathione, which protects your cells. Doctors are now using it more often to help patients after transplants, with brain conditions, and with eye diseases because they understand better how it works.

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The role N-acetylcysteine (nac) in the therapy of diseases characterized by oxidative stress (literature review)

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This study says NAC helps make glutathione, a body antioxidant, and that doctors are now using it more in eye, brain, and transplant treatments because they understand how it works better — which is exactly what the claim says.

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The role N-acetylcysteine (nac) in the therapy of diseases characterized by oxidative stress (literature review)

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DOI: 10.58708/2074-2088.2023-2(30)-6-16

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