Earlier this year while researching a disease in farm animals caused by eating toxin producing fungal spores I came across a natural remedy I had never heard of.
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| Cow’s skin photo-sensitised after liver damage caused by fungal spore toxins. |
The primary target of the toxin from the fungus is the liver. The damage to liver of these poor animals can be so severe that they die. However, the majority suffer a range of symptoms from nothing visually obvious to serious secondary sun damaged skin disease in non pigmented areas.
Your Own Recycle, Re-build and Remove Factory
As an essential organ in your body the liver rates highly in the Incredible Sweepstakes.It performs a huge range of essential tasks such as…
Your liver recycles haemoglobin from dying red blood cells and turns it into bile -a very important digestion aid.
Your liver is responsible for creating vital amino acids that act as the building blocks for all proteins.
And it is one of the most important members of your waste disposal team responsible for breaking down alcohol into water and carbon dioxide as a simple example.
Your liver has an incredible capacity to cope with damage and a massive capacity for regeneration. To do this though it needs a break from the toxic insult otherwise its ability to restore is overwhelmed. Alcoholics experience this as cirrhosis or a hardening of the liver when alcohol intake exceeds the livers processing capacity and failure occurs.
The Toxic Tight Rope
Man made chemicals are ubiquitous, innocuous and mostly fly completely under the radar as far as human awareness goes. And most people get away without any real problems. Some openly flaunt conventional wisdom and lead apparently healthy long lives. That is normal. And for those that do get away with it, good on them.
However if you are wanting to stack the odds in your favour then finding tools to help you fight the unavoidable chemical intake your body is exposed to every day is a sensible step. Just the same way that a tight rope walker uses a very long pole to help keep their balance, there are excellent and very affordable supplements you can use to help your liver cope under pressure.
Here are just some of the chemicals your body is likely to be dealing with every day:
- Monosodium glutamate (E621) – common flavour enhancer found in almost all flavoured snack food, soup mixes and other processed food
- Triclosans – an antibacterial and antifungal agent found in soaps, deodorants,toothpastes, kitchen utensils, toys, bedding andmany other household products. When exposed to sunlight it can degrade to dioxin.
- Parabens – commonly found in cosmetics, personal lubricants, shampoo and sunscreen lotions. This compound group accelerates aging and has been implicated in breast cancer at levels as low as 1 part per trillion
- Heavy metals such as mercury, cadmium and lead – all highly toxic to your nervous system.
Milk Thistle To The Rescue
Everyone recognises the importance of getting the first breast milk or colostrum into your new born. And the protective power of mother’s milk continues to build strong immunity and essential nutrients for healthy development of your baby.
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| Milk Thistle – Seeds provide nature’s most potent and proven liver support. |
While Milk Thistle – so called because of it’s white sap – is no replacement, the extracts from this plants seeds have powerful maternal like nurturing effects on your liver.
So powerful that they’ve been recognised and used by humans for treating liver damage for over 2,000 years. And the number of scientific studies performed to confirm the benefits is vast.
The extract from this plant’s seeds not only protects the liver cells from damage but also encourages and speeds their recovery, replacement and regeneration.
People suffering from liver disease from a multitude of causes including alcohol have a valuable tool to use to reduce the damage to their liver. [1]
What’s even more impressive is the lack of side effects – none to be precise. Neither have there been any reports of interactions with prescription medication, and in fact there is strong support for use in all cases of drug intake. It’s even reported to reduce hangovers – maybe I’ll have to give a personal trial and report back to you.
With the high levels of what the New Zealand Department of Statistics label as “highly preventable adverse drug reactions” and “preventable adverse drug reactions” there are real risks of taking prescription medication. This is not to say you shouldn’t take them but that using supportive supplementation makes sense.
To Your Increasing Health
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Green Foods online is currently reviewing the various supply options for Silymarin (Milk Thistle) and intends to stock this product as it fits in with our product profile. Effective and affordable. Register your interest by clicking here and I’ll notify you as soon as we have stock available. There’s bound to be a launch special for those that register. |
References:
1. Randomized Controlled Trial of Silymarin Treatment in Patients with Cirrhosis of the Liver
J Hepatol 1989 (Jul); 9 (1): 105–13
