Milk Thistle 60 Caps 150mg - Now Foods

Milk Thistle 150mg 60cap - Now Foods

Milk Thistle extract with Curcuma longa. Hepatoprotector (protective and restorative effect on the liver). Silymarin protects the external cell receptors, preventing toxins from breaking down the lipid fraction of adipose cells and penetrating the cells. It increases the production of glutathione – an antioxidant that promotes liver detoxification (tobacco, alcohol, medications, pesticides).

In nature, there is a special plant called Silybum marianum, or milk thistle, which is nature's answer to the constant bombardment of toxic substances our bodies face due to modern life. It contains a mixture of three flavonolignans which together are known as Silymarin. The concentration of Silymarin is highest in the fruit, and it is also found in the seeds and leaves. The effect of Silymarin in preventing liver destruction and enhancing its function is largely related to its ability to inhibit the factors responsible for liver damage, i.e., free radicals and leukotrienes, and to stimulate liver protein synthesis (perhaps the most interesting effect of silybin components on the liver). The result is an increase in the production of new liver cells to replace damaged ones. This demonstrates that Silymarin exerts a protective and restorative effect on the liver.

Silymarin prevents damage from free radicals by acting as an antioxidant, often being much more potent in antioxidant activity than vitamin E. Silymarin not only prevents the depletion of Glutathione (GSH) induced by alcohol and other liver toxins, but has also been shown to increase basal liver GSH. This is extremely useful when exposure to toxic substances is high, due to the vital role of Glutathione in detoxification reactions.

In Europe, Milk Thistle is a popular herbal medicine supported by solid scientific evidence on how it is possible to avoid and reverse liver damage by regenerating its cells and large areas of liver tissue. A large part of the research has been done in Germany, where it has government support as a complementary treatment for chronic liver inflammation and cirrhosis.

In the 1970s, German researchers at the University of Munich confirmed the reputation of milk thistle as a popular liver remedy by identifying the liver-protective pharmacological agents in its seeds or fruits, and even detailed its mode of action against the toxins known to be most lethal to liver cells. It is used for moderate alcohol consumers – acute and chronic hepatitis, damage caused by medications and exposure to toxic chemicals, and even advanced cirrhosis, which is generally irreversible and for which few pharmaceutical drugs achieve results, as well as for cases of bile duct inflammation.

Silymarin is a unique antioxidant complex that exerts its healing power by preventing damage to healthy liver cells while simultaneously stimulating the regeneration of those cells already affected, according to extensive research. Specifically, Silymarin stands guard at the external receptor sites of cells, preventing toxins from breaking down the lipid fraction of cell membranes and penetrating the cells. It also neutralizes the toxic substances that do manage to penetrate. It has the unique ability to stimulate protein synthesis in liver cells by increasing genetic activity (DNA and RNA), which is, in fact, what helps to regenerate damaged cells.

Milk Thistle also increases other antioxidant defenses in liver cells to neutralize toxic invaders. For example, one of the most potent antioxidants in the human body is a substance that is highly detoxifying to the blood - glutathione. In healthy humans, silymarin increased blood glutathione concentrations by 35%. To reinforce the benefits of this food supplement, Curcuma, better known as Turmeric, was added.

Scientific studies have confirmed the effective action of Turmeric as a detoxifier and stimulant of liver activity. Currently, it is also known that turmeric increases glutathione content and glutathione-S-transferase activity in the liver, which are key protectors against the harmful effects of toxins and free radicals.

One of the active principles of Turmeric are curcuminoids, which have shown in studies to possess considerable anti-inflammatory activity, partly due to their ability to inhibit the synthesis of inflammatory prostaglandins and by having an inhibitory action on the nitric oxide synthase enzyme which, as the name suggests, intervenes in the process of synthesizing nitric oxide from L-arginine. Nitric oxide is implicated in the inflammatory and carcinogenic process, thus making the action of curcuminoids essentially preventive.

Package contains 60 vegetable capsules