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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Haha, I take an amino acid to make me stop biting my nails. Works though, pretty wild.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Wait what? You take a pill, and it stops nail biting???

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

https://www.today.com/health/how-stop-nail-biting-supplement-n-acetyl-cysteine-potential-treatment-t206238

It works for about half the people that try it from what I have read. I got lucky. I never had luck with anything else. Mine likely stems from mild hereditary ocd FWIW. It's one of those problems I never thought a pill would fix, let alone a supplement lol.

https://www.bfrb.org/post/n-acetylcysteine-for-hair-pulling-skin-picking-and-nail-biting

You'll want to look at the studies for dosages.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

I love that this works, but this is basically black magic to me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The link doesn't work.

Amazing find though! For me it makes my nose super runny, it's prescribed for stuffed nose stuff if I'm not mixing things up here.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Yep, looks like it is used for that too. It is used to treat a lot of different things but most of it is currently under trials. Fingers crossed they pass

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

WTF this stuff treats like all my problems..

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I’ve seen the long covid…community? talking about this supplement lately