What is the difference between NAC and Riluzole?

[Guest alyssa]

Is there a difference between NAC and Riluzole? I know that they both regulate glutamate but I thought that NAC increased glutamate production and that Riluzole stopped it. What exactly do both of them do?

[MomWithOCDSon]

I'm no doctor or scientist, but everything I've found on line and in the research points to NAC being a "natural" glutamate agonist, just as Riluzole is a manufactured, prescription glutamate agonist. Supposedly, NAC "reduces glutamate hyperactivity" in the brain.

 

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