Antioxidants for Chronic Hepatitis C

[liveonearth]

In a recently published phase-I, open label clinical trial, 50 patients with chronic HCV infection were treated orally with a combination of seven antioxidative oral preparations (glycyrrhizin, schisandra, silymarin, ascorbic acid, lipoic acid, L-glutathione, and alpha-tocopherol) on a daily basis for 20 weeks, along with four different intravenous

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[rick_day]

I will print this out for my hepatologist to reject LOL.

thanks, interesting!

[liveonearth]

Are you taking an activated B vitamin supplement? I'm in a lecture that just explained how people with liver issues have a hard time activating their inactive vitamin B supplements. =-]

[rick_day]

NO.

I guess I should...

[liveonearth]

Yeah, it could help with any depression/anxiety or high cholesterol.....lots of things.