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Soon restaurants and bars will hand these out free, along with statins, with every cake, pie, and alcoholic beverage.
by yesbut 3y ago
Soon restaurants and bars will hand these out free, along with statins, with every cake, pie, and alcoholic beverage.
- astrange 3y agoStatins have dangerous downsides; they give some people uncontrollable anger.
- Smar 3y agoThis souns a lot like ethanol.
- astrange 3y agoMechanism is different though. Statins work by reducing cholesterol in your blood, but you need that for things like your brain. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200108-the-medications-that-change-who-we-are https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200108-the-medications-...
- sva_ 3y agoIt makes some people very mellow as well.
- valec 3y agomore concerning are the effects on muscle tissue
- giantg2 3y agoTechnically they could be doing that with NAC already. But as long as people aren't binge drinking, it's not really a problem.
- nkozyra 3y agoI'm pretty sure NAC is sold at a lot of bars but it's not a liver cell regenerative.
- giantg2 3y agoYeah, but is a protective (technically a precrusor). So you are protecting the cells from destruction so that you don't need to regenerate them. I've actually never seen NAC at bars. Is there a place this is common? I think the FDA is proposing a crackdown on NAC too, but I'm not sure where that stands.
- nkozyra 3y ago> I've actually never seen NAC at bars. Never on its own, but in hangover prevention concoctions. I recall the FDA talking about cracking down but so far it hasn't seemed to manifest.