Milk Thistle: The Best Herb for Healthy Liver Function
Promote liver damage healing & liver disease cures

Milk Thistle (Silybum maianum) seeds are approved in the German Commission E Monographs as a liver cleansing diet and recipe for fatty liver and inflammatory liver pain conditions. It also helps healing other liver diseases such as cirrhosis, hepatitis that are caused by alcohol and other toxins. Milk Thistle's seeds are most prized for their medicinal action where the active phytocompound Silymarin is found to be effective in improving liver health and healing fatty liver. For this reason, milk thistle is usually found in a standardized extract form with minimum 80% Silymarin. Silymarine has strong antioxidant properties because of its ability to increase GSH, or liver glutathione. Glutathione functions as a coenzyme in the body that works against oxidative damage to cells.

Recent clinical research in Germany shows that the seeds of milk thistle is one the best kidney & liver detox herbs that may help to avoid liver disease symptoms and make an excellent tonic for gall bladder & kidney as well. Its basic functions include stabilizing and strengthening liver cell walls thus protecting against hepatotoxic agents (chemical that damage or poison liver cells), enhancing the regeneration of liver cells, scavenging free-radicals in the live by acting as a liver antioxidant, and inhibiting production of bad enzymes that might damage the liver while preventing the depletion of glutathione on liver cells, a substance which mediates cell metabolism.

Milk Thistle 80% standardized extract is featured in Natural Assets' Formula for Liver (an herbal liver detox complex). Click here for more information.