Total cholesterol and HDL both showed significant improvement at the 26-week mark
Conclusions To our knowledge, this is the first human study: (a) to investigate the co-administration of GR from BSE and mustard seed powder with known Myr activity, (b) to include a standardized dose of ascorbic acid (Vit C), a known cofactor to the Myr enzyme, (c) to evaluate the possibility of predicting gut microbial responsiveness to GR, and (d) to investigate the effects of a well-defined source of Myr on conversion of broccoli seed GR to SF and its ability to modulate gut bacteria
Dikoma Shungu, a lead researcher at Weill Cornell Medicine, conducted an initial pilot trial administering 1,800 mg of NAC daily for four weeks to ME/CFS patients
PubMed Chang CH, Tsai WC, Lin MS, Hsu YH, Pang JHS (2011)
the dysfunction was reversible when vitamin C was discontinued