When individuals experience continuous stress, not only from emotional stressors (e.g., marital, financial, and occupational) but also from physical stressors (e.g., sleep deprivation, caffeine consumption, pain, extreme exercise), it can lead to changes in adrenal hormone levels, related to disorders ranging from anxiety to infertility
showed that 20 out of 675 patients with skin types III-IV who were treated with IPL showed melasma-like hyperpigmentation within three months following IPL treatment
This is not uncommon and may be related to the body adjusting to a rapid increase in B12 availability, especially in patients who were significantly deficient
This finding highlights the notion that therapeutic margins for NAC, and maybe other antioxidants administered alone or in combinations, are relatively narrow and may limit synergistic interactions