Milk Thistle and its Bitter Friends
Discussing milk thistle is a standard topic during the party season before Christmas. It is (and has been for hundreds of years) the classic choice to protect the liver from alcohol damage in particular but it also helps ‘party food’ excesses and other stresses such as Winter bugs.
Milk thistle seeds protect the liver by ensuring the smooth functioning of its many metabolic activities. This includes helping address ‘hangovers’ or excesses of alcohol. For women, alcohol metabolism can be much harder as we, unfortunately, possess fewer enzymes to metabolise alcohol compared to men. Equally, as we all age our ability to metabolize becomes less adept.
Herbalists tend to blend milk thistle with ‘bitter herbs’ like dandelion root and leaf, wormwood and gentian because these additions ensure good gut preparation and thorough processing. These blended herbs can be taken before a meal and will prime and prepare the digestive processes whereas if taken after a meal they will help process and digest.
When drinking alcohol include a large ratio of water alongside. Alcohol is a diuretic which means it will automatically remove water from the body in order for the alcohol to be absorbed; so this automatic dehydration should be contended with as you go along but if not, at the end of the evening before you go to bed drink plenty of water. Needless to say, take your milk thistle and or a blend of liver herbs before and after drinking alcohol or fun food excesses.
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