InstantNoodles
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Milk thistle (Silybum marianum)
Daily maintenance dose:
you want about 180mg of silymarin (actual silymarin content) twice daily. That's 180mg of silymarin (might be written as silybin or flavanolignans) . The amount of silymarin is alawys going to be less the the actual total dried weight of the Milk thistle herb in the tab/capsule. For example the Thompson's one's have 420mg of silymarin (written as 420mg silybin from memory) but have a total amount of dried Milk thistle herb as being something like 3500mg. By the way, Thompsons are one of the best OTC for quality and value IMHO but break them in half and space out the dosing by 45minutes if they bug your stomach, not that I am expecting they'd cause you trouble. They are supposed to be a 2 in 1 dose but I'm not sure if they are time release. This would make things more complicated so maybe crush them if they're the hard tabs.
I like to take it with a bit of food and one other thing I'll add is that very high doses can make soe people feel a bit light headed and maybe be a bit rough in the guts. This should be non existent at the recommended dose. If you want to take more than the recommended dose I recommend splitting it into two doses by about 2 hours.
Milk thistle as a powerful prophylactic :D
The main idea with dosing Milk Thistle is to have your liver saturated with silymarin before you ingest your liver toxins, which is as simple as taking the tablets an hour or so. I usually take at least 200mg silymarin an hour before but a little more, like a whole crushed Thompsons might be better if it's tolerated. I
not directed at you breno or anyone in particulars. I want to say that this stuff really does work (provided you get quality silymarin and most Aussie stuff seems good mate!) but I am not suggesting it can be used to take more liver toxin than you might usually. Just add it to your regular drug taking and you should experience some benefits. In the long term this is a very powerful herb capable of restoring the liver function tests of many booze fucked livers...maybe tell your parents about ita mildly fucked liver can cause all kinds of mildly fucked health concerns, maybe difficult to lose weight IMHO.
I wanna let people know from first hand experience that milk thistle works. At one stage I was chewing on panadeine extra like lolllies (500apap/15 codiene) and drinking huge amounts of alcohol till I had stabbing pains from my liver and shitting clay coloured logs. From that stage I stated taking nearly a 100g of milk thistle ( yes, taking 3-4 30,000mg tabs) a day and CWE. and things started to get better. Now my shits are a healthy brown, no pain from the liver and had an ultra sound done with nothing wrong showing up.
Everyone should look at taking Milk Thistle.