re willing to take drugs that have pretty slim studies
and often pretty slim success, why question how much
milk thistle it takes to produce silymarin? But of course, there are probably synergistic elements in milk thistle that also help -- you don't have to buy standardized herbs, but for the liver, I would. That is, if I were going to use milk thistle. Look, Hippocrates was an herbalist by and large, the "father" of modern medicine.