Supplementation with antioxidants in both chronic and acute stages of kidney diseases may have therapeutic potential
This makes them out of reach for many people, especially for long-term use
117 Only three of the studies included in this review were on NAC, but data were not divided into the separate compounds and there is no public access to the original studies that were published in 1972 and 1989, making it difficult to assess the use of NAC in this context
A pilot open label study of Cystoprotek in interstitial cystitis
Deleterious off-target effects in women 10 years or more past menopause, such as ovarian, endometrial, and breast cancers, intravascular thrombosis, cardiovascular episodes, and stroke, and suppression of endogenous testosterone and libido and increased risk of prostate cancer in men, have precluded broad clinical applications (Hall and Phillips, 2005