About Us

My brother owns and manages an international business, has a beautiful, loving family with children and pets, and seems to be living the American dream. But over the past ten years or so, he started feeling the cost of a lung disease he'd had as a very young man. I remember when the doctors told him there was no cure, and it would either stay the same, kill him or go away! There had only been 10 reported cases of this in the country, so they didn't know much about it.During the next few years, he had a lung lavage, which is basically rinsing them out. Together with his unshakable will to be healthy, he seemed to have won. But the scar tissue eventually increased, and he became more and more short of breath. The sight of a flight of stairs increasingly got more depressing. Mucus became a big problem, especially in the morning. Then he started getting colds, bronchitis and flu, shrinking away from situations were he might catch something. Things got much worse when he contracted pneumonia twice and developed bronchiectasis, one of the COPD conditions, and then pulmonary fibrosis. Even though he was dealing with health issues, he still had a family and business to maintain. He needed help. He was next to tears when he told me he was afraid he wouldn't be there for his children as they grew up.My brother is a smart guy with a big heart and as stubborn as can be sometimes. When his newest doctor's best advice was, "Don't smoke, and try not to get sick," he wouldn't accept that nothing could be done. Add that to being determined, and his mind was set on finding an answer. He spent hours upon hours researching on the internet, and found out about amino acid N-acetyl cysteine or NAC for short. He knew he had found his answer, but only the best would be good enough. He started using effervescent (fizzy) NAC from Germany early in 2004, and it has been such a godsend for him, that he wanted to tell as many people as he could. So we started this company to show you the research he found, and offer the the most stable, active NAC you can get outside of injections and prescriptions.

The Whole Story

About thirty years ago, I started noticing that I was becoming short of breath more easily, and coughing up junk, without having a cold. Long story short, I was finally diagnosed with a rare lung condition called Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis (PAP). At that time, there weren't more than a handful of people who had contracted this condition. It had killed some people. I got VERY lucky.I had moved to New York City, and the condition worsened. My hometown lung specialist recommended that I see Dr. Harry Steinberg at Long Island Jewish Hospital. He became something of a hero to me. I had no health insurance at the time, but recognizing the rare nature of my condition, arranged for me to have a whole lung lavage, which had never been done at LIJH. It was done as a case study, and all for free. I was in the hospital for a week, and they literally 'washed out' my lungs with salt water, one at a time (of course). My luck didn't stop there; within six months, the condition went in to complete remission, and although left with some scarring and a slightly reduced lung capacity, I lived a relatively normal life for almost 20 years. In the meantime, I had moved to Maryland.Then about eight years ago, I had two cases of walking pneumonia. Who knew there was a pneumonia vaccine, that anyone at risk for lung infections should get? Not me. After that, I started to get bronchitis at least twice a year. With each subsequent case, my bronchial tubes took longer to heal, and eventually I developed bronchiectasis and pulmonary fibrosis. I was always able to maintain a cardiovascular routine on my elliptical and rower, but got short of breath much more easily walking up steps, etc. Again, because of the rare condition I had all those years ago, I was accepted as a patient by the head of pulmonary medicine at Johns Hopkins. After a CAT scan confirmed the diagnosis (but quieted deeper fears of cancer, etc), and pulmonary function tests put my current lung capacity at about 60%, I was pretty much told to 'try to avoid lung infections, don't smoke, and get new PFTs each year'. That was it.

It wasn't enough.I started obsessively researching my condition to see how I could help myself. This is when I first came across NAC. I read study after study from Europe about how it was shown to reduce acute exacerbations of bronchitis, mostly in COPD patients. Though my condition is more a restrictive one, rather than obstructive, it had some similarities, mostly to do with mucous hypersecretion, but certainly in frequent bouts of bronchitis. It was well tolerated, with almost zero side effects. The biggest thing I found was to make sure to take a multiple vitamin with Zinc and Selenium, since it tends to reduce those. I had to get some. Using the requisite resourcefulness, I obtained some from Holland, and started taking it in the Spring of 2004. 600 mg effervescent tabs, twice a day. At that time I was paying about a dollar a tab. Fast forward to today, November 2007. I have had exactly ONE case of bronchitis since MAY 2004! And it was milder than all the preceding cases. Not only that, I have barely even had a cold. I get a flu shot every year, got a pneumonia vaccination in Fall 2004 (another result of my own research), and feel like at least for the time being, I am winning my personal battle. Even the doctors at Johns Hopkins are somewhat impressed, though they maintain that it's anecdotal evidence. That's OK, it's MY anecdote., and no one knows their body like you do. Then I started thinking about how I wish someone had told me about NAC eight years ago. Again, long story short, we have found a way to make the effervescent form of this powerful antioxidant amino acid available here. This is pharmaceutical quality NAC, made in Germany. It's got a great berry taste, and it's the taste of health to me. Take time to read through the science of NAC. Educate yourself. If we're able to make a difference for people, then maybe we can be what Dr. Harry Steinberg was to me. Sincerely,
A.J. Sadlier
HealthierLungs.com