by Darren ng | Aug 19, 2026 | Supplements
Short answer: Ergothioneine (ET) is a naturally occurring sulfur-containing amino-acid derivative made by fungi and certain bacteria — humans cannot synthesise it and obtain it almost entirely from food, mushrooms above all. What makes it unusual is that the human...
by Darren ng | Aug 19, 2026 | Supplements
Short answer: GlyNAC is not a single ingredient — it is glycine and N-acetylcysteine (NAC) given together. The point of the pairing is glutathione, the cell’s master antioxidant, which the body assembles from three amino-acid residues: glutamate, cysteine and...
by Darren ng | Aug 19, 2026 | Supplements
Short answer: Tocotrienols are the other half of the vitamin E family, and Malaysia — as the world’s principal palm-oil producer — sits at the source of most of the global supply. They are also among the harder nutrients to actually deliver into a patient. Three...
by Darren ng | Aug 19, 2026 | Supplements
Short answer: N-acetylcysteine is the acetylated form of the amino acid L-cysteine, and cysteine is the rate-limiting building block your patient’s cells use to make glutathione. The problem is not what NAC does — it is how little of it survives the journey....
by Darren ng | Aug 15, 2026 | Supplements
Short answer: Luteolin is a plant flavone with an unusually rich mechanistic story — it stabilises mast cells, crosses into the brain and calms activated microglia — and it has drawn real clinical interest for neuro-inflammatory presentations such as long-COVID...
by Darren ng | Aug 12, 2026 | Supplements
Short answer: Boswellia — Indian frankincense — is an old anti-inflammatory with a modern, specific reason to take it seriously in joint clinics: a single constituent, AKBA (3-O-acetyl-11-keto-β-boswellic acid), is a potent and selective inhibitor of 5-lipoxygenase,...
