Top 5 Liver Supplements
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Milk Thistle
Milk Thistle is the #1 recommended natural herb for liver health, confirmed by hundreds of clinical studies to protect the liver against virtually all types of damage. Many years of research shows the active flavanoid-lignan (flavanolignan) group of constituents, called silymarin, contained only in the seed shell has liver-protective and regenerative properties, as well as antioxidant effects. The liver protective effects were known and written about in ancient times, leading to the active chemical, pharmacological, and safety research beginning in Germany in the 1950s. Clinical use for a variety of liver ailments, such as hepatitis, has also prospered throughout many parts of the world. To learn more about the many benefits of milk thistle, click here.
If you are going to purchase milk thistle, a standardized milk thistle is recommended so you are sure to get the same amount of the active, beneficial ingredient in each dose. Milk thistle can also be combined with additional herbs such as artichoke (shown to support liver and gall bladder function through the removal of toxins and maintaining healthy bile production) and turmeric (which can help protect the liver from damaging free radicals and promote a health inflammatory response) to provide even more liver protection and support than standardized milk thistle alone.
Standardized milk thistle is inexpensive and has some benefits, but has ONE major shortcoming – its active ingredients are not absorbed easily by the body. This would require you to ingest large amounts to experience beneficial effects, which is an impractical option. Through research, we have found a patented milk thistle formula that resolves this ONE issue. The patented formula is proven by science to be up to 10 times more absorbable and is found in Maximum Milk Thistle® and the more powerful version UltraThistle®.
Clinical LiverSupport™
Clinical LiverSupport provides comprehensive liver protection and optimizes liver health and function. It combines a superior form of milk thistle with vitamins, herbs and antioxidants to nourish, support and provide total protection for your liver. Each ingredient was chosen by a physician for its specific liver enhancing benefits.
Clinical LiverSupport detoxifies and removes harmful substances from your body. It stops actions that can trigger inflammation in your liver. It prevents fatty deposits from forming and accumulating in your liver. It supports your immune system – those with a compromised liver most likely have immune deficiencies. It fights free radicals and oxidative stress and assists your liver in producing bile which is produced only in your liver. Click here to learn more.
LiverCare/Liv.52®
LiverCare (formerly Liv.52) simply ensures optimum liver function. Through the protection of the hepatic parenchyma, and by way of its potent antioxidant properties, LiverCare acts as a powerful detoxification agent. It neutralizes all kinds of toxins and poisons from food, water, air and medications – all sources of detrimental effects on the liver. Counteracting those hard-to-avoid poisons and therefore protecting one of the body’s most important organs, LiverCare has enormous health benefits for everyone.
Alcohol users particularly found LiverCare helped them maintain a healthier liver. It also helps people taking allopathic medications who want to protect themselves against the damaging hepatotoxic side effects of those medications.
In Addition to These Top 5…
Alpha Lipoic Acid
Alpha-lipoic acid is an antioxidant that is made by the body and is found in every cell, where it helps turn glucose into energy. Antioxidants attack “free radicals,” which cause harmful chemical reactions that can damage cells in the body, making it harder for the body to fight off infections. They also damage organs and tissues.
Dr. Lester Packer, Research Director of the leading antioxidant research center at the University of California at Berkley, and considered the world’s foremost antioxidant research scientist, describes Lipoic Acid in his book The Antioxidant Miracle. Dr. Packer states, “Lipoic Acid is a superantioxidant that breaks many of the rules of antioxidant behavior. If I were to invent an ideal antioxidant, it would closely resemble Lipoic Acid, which does everything an antioxidant should do and more.”
Other antioxidants work only in water (such as vitamin C) or fatty tissues (such as vitamin E), but alpha-lipoic acid is both fat- and water-soluble. That means it can work throughout the body and why it is known as the “universal antioxidant.” Antioxidants in the body are used up as they attack free radicals, but evidence suggests alpha-lipoic acid may help regenerate these other antioxidants and make them active again.
Glutathione Support
Your body is amazing! It naturally tries to support, fix and preserve itself by creating what it needs to get or stay healthy.
Glutathione is one of these substances that your body creates and recycles regularly but there are times when your body might not be able to keep producing enough to keep up with demand. Poor nutrition or lifestyle choices, illness, stress, toxins either from the environment or medications, liver compromise, and even aging can lead to an overall decline in glutathione. Glutathione supplementation along with important cofactors can improve your body’s levels of this important antioxidant.
As a “Master Antioxidant” glutathione is essential for all types of activities in the body, one of which is protecting your cells from oxidative damage caused by free radicals. Free radical damage has been shown as a contributing cause of various chronic conditions.
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