 Why would the FDA want to ban NAC, aka N-acetylcysteine, which is a very powerful antioxidant supplement? Now, the FDA is buckling down, warning companies it cannot be legally included in supplements. NAC was first approved by the FDA as a respiratory drug in 1963. It's also been used commonly to prevent serious liver damage from Tylenol poisoning. Although there has been pushback against NAC as a supplement since 2010, the FDA has ramped that up drastically this year, claiming that since NAC was not used as a supplement prior to 1963, it is therefore an unapproved drug making it illegal. The main speculation for this is that NAC is so effective against illness, disease, and infection that they want to take it out of the hands of the average person. This reminds me of DHT, Dehydrotestosterone, which I was actually looking into like five or six years ago, but that was banned even prior to that, which is a form of testosterone that is activated in your body when you take testosterone. So it was kind of weird that something like DHT was available over the counter on Amazon, but DHT was actually banned in other countries while being legal in the United States, but that's not the case. And you also have something like fish oil, which pharmaceutical companies are now selling as very expensive drugs to treat certain things like Alzheimer's. So it kind of raises some questions about why they would want to do this. And you might ask, why not ban all supplements, vitamin D, vitamin K, vitamin C, and regulate them? I think that might be something that happens 10, 20, 30 years from now in the very near future with more surveillance and control of everything on this planet. But in the meantime, I think it's because NAC is so much more effective than anything else on its own, which we will get into. So NAC is a derivative of the amino acid cysteine. When you take NAC, it is sent to your liver, which converts it into cysteine. The liver can then use cysteine to produce glutathione, which enters the bloodstream and is distributed throughout the body. Glutathione essentially being the body's master antioxidant. We've done two very in-depth videos on antioxidants and free radicals, where I go further into this. Glutathione can scavenge oxidants, therefore protecting your cells against oxidative damage. Both of these are actually ingredients in my antioxidant support supplement, NAC and glutathione, which combines them with vitamin C and ubiquinol to give your body everything it needs to reduce oxidative stress. Now I first became familiar with NAC because I was using it as part of an antimicrobial protocol for SIBO and Candida. You have several components of that protocol, one being to destroy the biofilm. And biofilms are mucus-like matrixes that protect bacteria and fungus, making them incredibly strong, resilient, difficult to get rid of. NAC has been shown to inhibit formation of biofilm as well as destroy developed biofilms. Its ability to break the mucus down and reduce secretion as well as increase clearance is unmatched. I mean if you were a doctor and you could prescribe very powerful things like bismuth and certain antibiotics, you might be able to replicate the effectiveness of NAC, but from that over-the-counter perspective, there's really nothing else you can get. Imagine the bacteria is wearing a bulletproof vest and you're shooting it over and over again. It's not really working, maybe it's a little bit effective. NAC essentially removes the vest from the bacteria and then both NAC as well as antimicrobials can act on the bacteria to destroy it. The reason NAC is so precious and why they're trying to ban it is because of what I said. I don't really think you can find anything else that acts like that for two reasons. The antioxidant activity of NAC is both direct and indirect. Only meaning that it acts intracellularly and it can also replenish antioxidant capacity of your current cells to act intracellularly. Whereas if you just took glutathione, you're only going to increase your cells' capacity. You're not going to put large amounts of a substance that can act on its own. So hypothetically, if you have a lot of mucus buildup in your lungs, excess fluid, creating a perfect breeding ground for bacteria, NAC can prevent the formation of that bacteria and that's how people actually die from pneumonia. The body is not capable of fighting off that bacterial accumulation. It just festers and grows and grows and grows. NAC can improve the lung function, reduce the symptoms, and certainly prevent more severe circumstances. Basically, if you were a doctor, if you were in the hospital and you wanted to keep people sick and have big pharma make money off of them, you don't want to give them NAC. You don't want to improve their antioxidant status. We spoke about doctors prescribing fish oil now as medicine. They don't want anything too effective. Their goal is to keep people on the big pharma train constantly sick, going to the doctor, not feeling optimal, whereas you have people like me and especially people that watch my channel that probably haven't been to the doctor in years, maybe even decades and are perfectly healthy. Thank you guys for joining me today. If you could please drop a like on the video, leave a comment down below, subscribe so that YouTube can unsubscribe you next week, and make sure to check that notification bell so they don't notify you of my videos. Therefore, you guys can go to frank-defaun.com to check out all of my businesses including organ supplements. Thanks again, guys, and I'll see you tomorrow.