Comment · Fri, February 14, 2025 · ND Owner
Milk Thistle is beneficial to the liver! fact or fiction?
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Suspicious_Effort161 · 32 points
Looking for somebody with a better understanding of the topic to weigh in here. i’ve seen a lot of conflicting information on whether or not milk thistle actually benefits liver function. please educate me.
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u/MisterYouAreSoDumb · ND Owner
Yes, it is effective. However, it has to be a standardized silymarin extract. Just regular milk thistle is not effective. You have to have a highly standardized silymarin product. Also, milk thistle has another compound in it called silychristin. This compound inhibits the thyroid. This is counterproductive for most people, so you need an extract that is low in silychristin. As far as I am aware, we are the only ones doing that. it took us a while to get the extraction right to concentrate silymarin and remove silychristin. Most people are not even aware of this issue.
https://nootropicsdepot.com/high-potency-milk-thistle-extract-capsules-silymarins/
You can see we standardize to less than 0.05% silychristin.