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Soon restaurants and bars will hand these out free, along with statins, with every cake, pie, and alcoholic beverage.

Technically they could be doing that with NAC already. But as long as people aren't binge drinking, it's not really a problem.

I'm pretty sure NAC is sold at a lot of bars but it's not a liver cell regenerative.

Yeah, 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.

> 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.

Statins have dangerous downsides; they give some people uncontrollable anger.

This souns a lot like ethanol.

Mechanism 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-...

It makes some people very mellow as well.

more concerning are the effects on muscle tissue

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