Milk thistle for diabetes
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Generally, herbs aren't used in isolation. Milk thistle is good at cleansing the liver, but it is usually used in formula with other herbs that affect the liver in different ways. You also have to be careful with milk thistle. For example, if you're on medication, it can cleanse the medication out of your system before it has a chance to work. Other herbs that support the liver don't have this effect. It all depends on what you're trying to accomplish.
I forgot to tell you after you go to mayo clinic review of milk thistle you go to the site that says Milk Thistle and under that it has Mayo Clinic and it does give a web address
www.mayoclinic.com/health/silymarin/NS-patient-milkthistle/ I tried it and can't get there so it is easier to just do it like I said.
Hi, Peteshine, nice to meet you. Sorry it has to be under these conditions but onward and upward, right?
Following your standard healthy diet that's high in vegetables and whole grains and low in processed foods, red meats and sugars is a good bet. It can get more specific. Certain whole grains may be better than others, for example.
gauf, from the Hep C board has a journal entry under his profile that discusses a liver friendly diet.
We do have the right to express our opinions, with a few exceptions, health matters being one of them, that arena needs peer reviewed science. Did I miss something regarding milk thistle? The main point seems to be milk thistle "walls" off the live preventing it from doing its job.
I am planning on going back to get another blood test soon, however, wanted to share with the group that I started taking Milk Thistle about three weeks ago to see whether this might help lower my enzyme levels to normal. What I have been finding is that I no longer need to take the prilosec or zantac, there is something (or appears to be something) in the Milk Thistle that is both helping me feel better as well as well as lowering my need for prilosec or other antacids.
I think the reasons for saying not to use milk thistle while on treatment are as simple as there is not enough information on whether milk thistle helps or inhibits the treatment process, make side effects better or worse and better to play it safe than sorry and go with knowns while on treatment medications. That's also why alot of herb products are not to be taken while on treatment either.
I am very cautious when it comes to any of the supplements, so following HR's plan to the nth degree won't work for me. Milk Thistle makes me have an asthma flare, so it's not something that I'm going to do. I am doing the fish oil because it was recommended by the PA at my Hepatologist's office. I am trying to watch my sugar because the internal medicine doctor wanted me to be careful about that, although I haven't been diagnosed as pre-diabetic, or diabetic.
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