Charles Matthews M.D.

I became interested in The Recipe after the Baylor study was published, showing that the health of older people improved with supplementation with glycine and  NAC.  There are ongoing studies about this, but it is clear that at least temporarily a group of older people will have better health if

After many decades in the neurology field, I have come to believe that neurodegenerative conditions like "Parkinson's" and "Alzheimer's" are marketing terms  organized around selling products for frailty.  There is some heterogeneity in the way we fall apart, but they all have in common underlying tissue and complexity changes that

As we've discussed before, this blog contains my opinion about six supplements that might benefit those over 50, and perhaps those with a chronic (non healing) condition of younger age (The Recipe).  They are my personal opinions, not medical advice.       Unchronic is a non-commercial site.  I write it for relatives,

Mimicking the Baylor GlyNAC Study Glycine powder 5 grams (1 teaspoon) twice daily NAC powder 5 grams (1 teaspoon) twice daily Acceptable manufacturers:  Bulk Supply and Nutricost.    WHY: This combination is intended to mimic the GlyNAC supplementation program discussed in the earlier blog entries.  It restores glutathione levels to those

It's common to hear people say, "I don't want to live to 100".  What they mean, I think, is that they would rather be dead than sick and miserable.  Me too.  But there are many who die in their seventies after twenty years of poor health, and a few who

People fall sick in different ways, but recover in the same way.  Chronic illness can be understood as an impairment of the normal regenerative turnover of the body, a broadly similar biological sequence which takes place across all tissues and systems and illnesses.      In this stereotyped healing sequence an initial