Liver for life | Dash For Power

05 10 2007

For a liver for life, B complex, SAM-e,folic acid

Posted by: Derek in Hair Glorious, Brain Foods-Smarten Up!, Be 1 of The 3 Wise Men, Bliss In Your Life, Be The Vibrant Woman

The human liver is one of the only organs that can rebuild part of its dead tissue. To a point.

And we all know that beyond that point of no repair the liver loses its elasticity and beguns to turn into more like a dead old dried out sponge beyond repair in the full process of cirrhosis, a chronic liver diseease in which normal liver tissue is replaced with scarred, nonfunctional tissue.
“People who are at risk drink 15 or more drinks a week, or regularly have more than 5 at a time”, says Mark Mailliard, M.D., director of the hepatitis C program at the University of Nebraska. And this doesn’t happen only to choronic or binge drinkers, although they are the greatest sufferers of this unnecessary early death.
Your liver is really just a sponge full of chemicals, and a compounds called glutathione (GSH) helps keep everything in check. Not only does GSH detoxify things Tylenol (which is why drinkers should NEVER take Tylenol, the mix becomes toxic). GSH is essential for liver regeneration. Lab rats unable to create GSH are also unable to grow back liver tissue. Shelly Lu, M.D., says “we are not sure how it works, that’s the black box.
In Europe, SAM-e, a supplement that converts to glutathione in the liver can bring your GSH back to normal, and is actually prescribed for liver disease. The standard dose there is 1.2 grams (g), or about 3 tablets per day.
If you are a drinking person, you should also be taking folic acid and a B-vitamin complex daily, because they are essential in the formation of SAM-e and glutathione. Our Supplements site and our wider Amazon store top right, has the excellent Nature Made Super B Complex. As vitamins B and C are safe in that they are water soluable, our systems eliminate too much as harmless yellow urine.
So, take care, cheers but eat well, take all these if you are vulnerable. We want you around for many more “Auld Lang Times among friends,keep at till we learn the words.