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As a guy who likes an occasional adult beverage or two, I make sure to take plenty of milk thistle and I've been doing it for years now.
Hope it's doing me some good.
I wanted to point out that many of the benefits come from its bitterness. So you do not get all the effects if you take it in a capsule. For example milk thistle only cleanses the liver and stimulates the gallbladder when used as a bitter.
A naturopath told me that an MD had a case of poisoning and he knew enough to call the naturopath and get milk thistle before the person's liver was poisoned. I think it was a mushroom the person had eaten and it kills the liver. Anyway the milk thistle saved the person's life. Good stuff.
Miss H -- I did know that the liver repairs itself, but didn't specifically know when.
I take the milk thistle with my dinner each night.
I also take acidophilus pills each day to help with digestion.
The kind of stuff that your doctor will never tell you!
Someone sent Me the following in an email when I voiced concern over wine drinks. But I didn't really pay attention since I do Milk Thistle regularly and have stopped drinking TOTALLY for five months now. Just don't want to chance anything. Will take resveratrol in some other fashion ;-):
Liver Regeneration – Glycyrrhizin, a compound found within licorice, and which we recently featured as a powerful anti-SARS virus agent, has also been found to stimulate the regeneration of liver mass and function in the animal model of hepatectomy. Other liver regenerative substances include:
Carvacrol (a volatile compound in oregano)
Curcumin
Korean Ginseng
Rooibos
Vitamin E
[view the first-hand biomedical citations on the Liver Regeneration research page]
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As a guy who likes an occasional adult beverage or two, I make sure to take plenty of milk thistle and I've been doing it for years now.
Hope it's doing me some good.
Yes. So are artichokes and if you ever want to do a liver cleanse, raw beet juice will really help to purge your liver. They say to go slow with beets and start out only putting 1/4 beet in your juicer. I decided to ignore the warning and put a whole one in mixed with a bunch of celery. Wow talk about getting rid of gross stuff far beyond the usual poop the next morning. Beets really work!
Yes. So are artichokes and if you ever want to do a liver cleanse, raw beet juice will really help to purge your liver. They say to go slow with beets and start out only putting 1/4 beet in your juicer. I decided to ignore the warning and put a whole one in mixed with a bunch of celery. Wow talk about getting rid of gross stuff far beyond the usual poop the next morning. Beets really work!
One thing I grow every year is beets. I seem to be good at it! Right now I'm just eating the greens but when the beets themselves are large enough, we'll be devouring them. I didn't know they were so cleansing but my husband and I both love beets and we always feel better after eating them. What a great all around vegetable!
One thing I grow every year is beets. I seem to be good at it! Right now I'm just eating the greens but when the beets themselves are large enough, we'll be devouring them. I didn't know they were so cleansing but my husband and I both love beets and we always feel better after eating them. What a great all around vegetable!
The important thing to remember is to get the maximum benefit from any plant, it needs to be consumed raw and ideally right after it is harvested from your organic garden.
However after it is cooked, about 25% of the benefits remain. Cooked foods are so addictive unfortunately. I love steamed beets with a little balsamic vinegar and dijon mustard. I figured out the recipe after buying some fancy marinated beets from Whole Foods. The mfr was charging some ridiculous amount of money for them. They tasted so good and the "secret" ingredients (that weren't so secret were listed on the packaging) included balsamic vinegar and dijon mustard. If you add lemon juice and minced garlic, it makes them even better. So needless to say, I never waste money buying those in the store. Rather I buy the organic beets; cut them up into bite size pieces, steam them and pour the marinade over them and let them sit for a while.
The important thing to remember is to get the maximum benefit from any plant, it needs to be consumed raw and ideally right after it is harvested from your organic garden.
However after it is cooked, about 25% of the benefits remain. Cooked foods are so addictive unfortunately. I love steamed beets with a little balsamic vinegar and dijon mustard. I figured out the recipe after buying some fancy marinated beets from Whole Foods. The mfr was charging some ridiculous amount of money for them. They tasted so good and the "secret" ingredients (that weren't so secret were listed on the packaging) included balsamic vinegar and dijon mustard. If you add lemon juice and minced garlic, it makes them even better. So needless to say, I never waste money buying those in the store. Rather I buy the organic beets; cut them up into bite size pieces, steam them and pour the marinade over them and let them sit for a while.
Mine are organic, that's one of the main reasons for having a garden in the first place. We just eat the beets steamed, same with the greens. I may try the vinegar and mustard some time but we love them just as they are. (Can't stand garlic whether it's good for you or not.)
A simple ultra low carb paleo style diet where you eliminate all but say 50-100 grams of net carbs per day while exercising and losing weight will do much more for the liver than any supplement.
Excess carbs (mainly fructose) and excess calories cause non alcoholic fatty liver disease. A low carb routine is the cure. If you have a pink tongue, clean breath, and feel good, there's no real reason to do anything.. you are healthy.
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