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Re:Ask HN: Food Addiction by DoreenMichele on Saturday May 14, 2022 @02:29PM (#31380849)
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.
Re:Ask HN: Food Addiction by jaxmurr on Saturday May 14, 2022 @02:51PM (#31381084)
Not a vitamin but NAC helps me with obsessive behaviors and changing habits.

Hilarious that the FDA threw a fit over it.

Re:Ask HN: Food Addiction by DoreenMichele on Saturday May 14, 2022 @02:56PM (#31381144)
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.

Re:Ask HN: Food Addiction by amelius on Saturday May 14, 2022 @03:09PM (#31381288)
How do you determine a safe dosage for a child?
Re:Ask HN: Food Addiction by DoreenMichele on Saturday May 14, 2022 @03:14PM (#31381338)
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.

Re:Ask HN: Food Addiction by nradov on Saturday May 14, 2022 @04:42PM (#31382147)
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

Re:Ask HN: Food Addiction by robot1 on Saturday May 14, 2022 @02:59PM (#31381190)
Anecdotally, I've been able to almost completely curb my lifelong nail-biting habit with NAC.
Re:Ask HN: Food Addiction by noneeeed on Saturday May 14, 2022 @03:18PM (#31381375)
What’s NAC?
Re:Ask HN: Food Addiction by amelius on Saturday May 14, 2022 @08:16PM (#31384037)
N-acetyl-cysteine.
Re:Ask HN: Food Addiction by noneeeed on Wednesday May 18, 2022 @07:17AM (#31421370)
Thanks, looks interesting.
Re:Ask HN: Food Addiction by halfmatthalfcat on Saturday May 14, 2022 @02:58PM (#31381171)
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.
Re:Ask HN: Food Addiction by DoreenMichele on Saturday May 14, 2022 @03:00PM (#31381194)
It was ripped from firsthand personal experience raising a child with obsessive tendencies who is much less crazy making these days.

Among other things.