The previous end-all, be-all for the liver was ‘silymarin’, a chemical in Milk Thistle. Several scientific studies suggest that substances in milk thistle (especially a flavonoid called silymarin) protect the liver from toxins.
Not only did it protect the liver from deadly toxins, such as that found in the death cap mushroom, but it slowed uptake of such toxins, giving more time for the protective effect, and it stimulated liver regeneration by as much as 1/3rd.
The toxin mentioned is so destructive that there have been cases where after it destroyed a liver, and the person got a liver transplant, there was enough toxin left in the blood to destroy the transplant liver.
Oh yeah, I’d be choking people in the ER!
Very neat with the mushroom works except there are so many weird things about mushrooms. I consume a few but not very many.
My wife has been taking Milk Thistle and gets kind of upset when she runs out. Probly something to that one as well.