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by DoreenMichele 1503 days ago
Let me suggest you likely have some kind of vitamin deficiency making you obsessive. Address that and your relationship to food may stop being so problematic.
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Not a vitamin but NAC helps me with obsessive behaviors and changing habits.

Hilarious that the FDA threw a fit over it.

If you mean N-acetyl cysteine, it's a glutathione precursor. Glutathione is an important antioxidant critical to liver function, among other things.

Milk thistle (as a supplement) is a popular glutathione precursor. There are others but I don't remember them because milk thistle worked for me, so that's what I used.

How do you determine a safe dosage for a child?
I don't know. I'm not a child. I didn't give it to my children.

If I were trying to help a child, I would likely start by removing particleboard furniture and other sources of off-gassing from their environment as a means to lighten the load on their liver.

Though to be frank, I did that for me as well, on top of supplements because I was very sick at the time.

There is some limited evidence that NAC can be effective for treating severe COVID-19 symptoms. However, I don't think it has been incorporated into any of the official treatment protocols.

https://www.europeanreview.org/article/27898

Anecdotally, I've been able to almost completely curb my lifelong nail-biting habit with NAC.
What’s NAC?
N-acetyl-cysteine.
Thanks, looks interesting.
I’m not sure how to take this comment. I understand it’s probably coming from a good place but when has a vitamin deficiency ever been linked to obsessive tendencies? On its face, this comment was ripped right from Nextdoor or Facebook.
It was ripped from firsthand personal experience raising a child with obsessive tendencies who is much less crazy making these days.

Among other things.