When Crossfit Crosses Paths With Lyme Disease

September 22, 2021

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TOUCHED BY LYME: When Crossfit crosses paths with Lyme disease

Sept. 17, 2021

CrossFit is a competitive sport that incorporates elements of weightlifting, gymnastics, and other vigorous athletic endeavors. Suffice it to say, people who excel at this must be in tiptop shape and full of energy.

That’s why it’s so remarkable that 17-year-old Mallory O’Brien, named CrossFit’s 2021 “Rookie of the Year,” has recently experienced a prolonged and debilitating case of Lyme disease.

According to an article by Nicole Payton on the CrossFit Games website:

“For more than a year, O’Brien suffered from severe headaches and exhaustion before she was diagnosed with Lyme disease. She recalled having two tick bites around ages 10 or 11, but it wasn’t until right before the 2019 CrossFit Open, when she was 15, that she started feeling the effects of the disease.…Unable to train as she was accustomed to, let alone compete in 2020, she made the wise decision to pull back the throttle, and allow her body and mind time to recover.”

Mallory said her headaches were “severe, daily, and lasting all day.”

How did she do it?

How did she recover and return to such a physically demanding sport? Mallory attributes it to “a combination of focused treatment, sound nutrition, and functional fitness.”

Furthermore, she said, “I became very aware of how nutrition and vitamins can heal our bodies and learned to look at food labels so that I know what I’m putting into my body. I’m really into healing my body naturally now and understanding the science behind nutrition and natural medicine.”

Payton’s article continues: “She has demonstrated an enormous amount of resilience in her recovery from Lyme disease, and she has a few words of encouragement for anyone suffering from the disease and losing hope.”

“Never give up! I was told so many times that there was nothing wrong with me, or that they couldn’t explain my symptoms,” O’Brien said.

“It felt like no one was listening. My mom and I became obsessed with finding an answer. We knew there was no way this was not explainable. Trust your instincts. You know your body better than anyone! Find a doctor that listens to you and is committed to helping you.”

Click here to read the whole article.

Note: The photos accompanying this blog are from Mallory’s Instagram page.

TOUCHED BY LYME is written by Dorothy Kupcha Leland, LymeDisease.org’s Vice-president and Director of Communications. She is co-author of When Your Child Has Lyme Disease: A Parent’s Survival Guide. Contact her at dleland@lymedisease.org .

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“Hospitals Are the 2021 Gas-Chambers – Modern Day Killing Fields”

September 21, 2021

**UPDATE Jan. 21, 2022**

An unvaxxed COVID patient is being flown to Texas after being denied life-saving care in Minnesota. The hospital made a decision to turn off his life-support allegedly because he was unvaccinated. Texas doctors were shocked at his condition and one stated he was the most undernourished patient he had ever seen.  http://GiveSendGo.com/Anne The family is accepting prayers and donations.

Meanwhile, severely ill patients allowed ivermectin survive.

https://www.brighteon.com/ae161fe9-fb05-4c96-9b3b-3587298323a2  Video Here (Approx. 5 Min)

“Hospitals ARE The New Ovens” – Dr. Jane Ruby on The Stew Peters Show

Prevent Global Genocide
As Stew Peters rightly describes, the “Money for Murder” scheme continues as Americans are loaded up with the expensive, poisonous drug Remdesivir, forced onto ventilators, and killed. On the other hand, they are denied cheap, safe, effective treatment for COVID and threatening doctors who prescribe it.
**UPDATE**  Oct. 4, 2021

Vaccine researcher James Grundvig blows the lid on the CRIMINAL FRAUD of the CDC

This researcher reiterates that the CDC or Fauci protocol is killing people in hospitals. They are censoring and banning Ivermectin and HCQ, and other successful treatments and dooming people to a death sentence.

  • There were more than 500 deaths in the first year of remdesivir usage.
  • There have been 20 deaths in 19 years of ivermectin usage.
  • The FDA, spurred by “multiple” reports of ivermectin ‘poisoning,’ lied when it put out a post on it causing “serious harm, seizures, coma, and even death”.  When the author inquired on how many is “multiple,” she was told FOUR.  Yet, the FDA had no trouble approving remdesivir which has caused far more deaths.
  • CDC also bad-mouthed ivermectin and pushed the “calls to the poison control center” narrative. The problem is they give no data to support this claim.
  • In India, ivermectin is a house-hold name and easily available for about $2 at the nearest drug store. Due to India’s successful usage of ivermectin for COVID people there no longer fear COVID.  They simply treat it.  The Awaken India Movement shares resources and brings people together who desire freedom of choice and basic human rights.  The group demands no lockdowns, no mandatory masks, no mandatory social distancing, no mandatory testing, no mandatory vaccines, no GMO foods, no 5G, no tech censorship, no new normal, and no great reset.  Source
Over a year ago, a New York doctor warned about using ventilators for COVID:

“I am a physician who has been working at the bedside of COVID+ patients in NYC. I believe we are treating the wrong disease and that we must change what we are doing if we want to save as many lives as possible. I welcome any feedback, especially from those bedside: doctors, nurses, xray techs, pharmacists, anyone and everyone. Does this sound wrong or right, is something more right? Please let me know.”  @cameronks

This article explains an Italian report titled ‘Covid-19 Does Not Lead to a “Typical” Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome‘. They affirm that the standard approach for ARDS (high Positive End Expiratory Pressure (PEEP) and Prone Positioning, often does more harm than good. Patients are described as suffering “severe hypoxemia” and the usual treatments are failing because they, “result in severe hemodynamic impairment and fluid retention.” Also, a global survey of 6,000 doctors found Hydroxychloroquine is the most effective’ treatment for the coronavirus COVID-19.

This article reveals that several studies show that most coronavirus patients who end up on ventilators die, and many of the patients who continue to live can’t be taken off the mechanical breathing machines.

A Canadian doctor recently published a video on how people are medically kidnapped in hospitals, forced onto ineffective and dangerous COVID protocols against their will, and literally paying for it with their lives. 

Nurses whisper to patients that ivermectin works, but ‘their hands are tied.’

https://www.bitchute.com/video/bhb7p41RbtsJ/  Video Here

Hospitals are murdering people and most Covid deaths are due to medical malpractice.

This brief two and a half minute video with Del Big Tree on the Highwire states the same thing.

But this information doesn’t seem to matter to our corrupt public health ‘authorities’, mainstream medicine, and a complicit media.  They ignore the evidence and push a narrative at all costs utilizing the same destructive, inaccurate testing, and treatments/vaccines that have proven to be ineffective and dangerous.

This exact same thing has occurred in Lyme-land for over 40 years, repeatedly.  Patients, doctors, and researchers alike have cried “foul,” for decades to no avail.  The corrupt CDC/NIH/IDSA/FDA continues to push abysmal testing that misses more than 70% – 86% of cases, and a monotherapy that has been shown to fail in reality and in nearly every antibiotic study ever done. They also completely ignore the complexity of borrelia and the fact it rarely is the only pathogen infecting people. These corrupt institutions have doomed patients to a life-time of suffering by refusing to listen, consider research other than their own, and look at this through an unbiased lens.

If they have refused to reconsider their stance on Lyme/MSIDS for over 40 years, do you really think they are going to reconsider their stance on COVID now?
It’s remdesivir, ventiliators, and the COVID jabs or bust.

If you haven’t figured it out by now, these people do not care about your health.

Getting an independent doctor could save your life from COVID and from Lyme/MSIDS.  An independent doctor used comprehensive, long-term antimicrobial treatment for Lyme/MSIDS, and ivermectin for COVID and brought me back twice from the jaws of death to fight another day.
Do not despair, do not fear, but find yourself a free-thinking, independent doctor who will listen to you, and treat you appropriately.

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COVID-19: A Second Opinion

On January 24, 2022 Senator Ron Johnson invited a group of world renowned doctors and medical experts to the U.S. Senate to provide a different perspective on the global pandemic response, the current state of knowledge of early and hospital treatment, vaccine efficacy and safety, what went right, what went wrong, what should be done now, and what needs to be addressed long term. This 38 minute video highlights the 5-hour discussion. Click here for the entire event video: https://rumble.com/vt62y6-covid-19-a-…

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Get Sicker: Anatomy Of A Failed Policy

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Get Sicker: Anatomy Of A Failed Policy

August 31, 2021
 
‘Get Sicker’: Anatomy Of A Failed Policy

By Mary Beth Pfeiffer

Twenty-seven-year-old Ankit Dubey was sick and terrified. He could hear sirens blaring across Lucknow, his home in northern India. He had been warned away from hospitals. People in his middle-class neighborhood were dying.

This second COVID wave was nothing like the first in 2020. This was Armageddon, “a horror movie,” he said, that lasted through April and May of 2021. He had thought lockdowns had spared India the chaos he had seen on TV from New York and Rome. He was wrong. “We went through hell,” he said.

Dubey told me his story because he wants the West to understand, to know. He, his parents, 56 and 65, and brother, 30, all four sick, were spared death, thankfully, but also painful and prolonged illness. How? They got treated early with a combination of safe generic drugs: azithromycin, doxycycline, and another he had never heard of: ivermectin. Other Indians tell similar stories.

India has been cast as a COVID failure with a struggling health-care system and spotty access to vaccines. But despite those two realities, India quelled a vicious Delta wave by making a key choice. Most of its states, led by 240-million population Uttar Pradesh where Dubey lives, opted to treat COVID early. The United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and most of Europe have not. They can learn from Ankit Dubey’s story.  (See link for article)

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“Get Sicker” is exactly the MO of our corrupt public health ‘authorities’ regarding Lyme/MSIDS as well. 

You may recognize the author of the article. She’s a Lyme/MSIDS sufferer as well and has written about the plight of Lyme patients.  Unfortunately, she has bought the lie and written a book that ‘climate change’ is what is driving tick and disease proliferation.  I have it on good authority from an expert, independent tick researcher, also a patient, that this is just not the case.  Similarly to what we are going through now with COVID, our government is well versed in utilizing ‘slight of hand’ tactics, quite similar to magicians, to get us concentrating and looking in one area while they perform their tricks in another area. They are firmly behind both the COVID debacle and the Lyme/MSIDS debacle – causing both, with severe conflicts of interest and owning patents on nearly every aspect of both diseases. 

Summary of article:

  • Patients in the U.S. are offered nothing to treat COVID early and despite its failure, are only offered ventilators when cases become severe.
  • Some of these patients worsen needing hospital care due to a cytokine storm.
  • U.S. patients have had hospital staff whisper that ivermectin works, but that “their hands are tied.” A nurse stated, “When we used to prescribe it, everybody was walking out alive.”
  • When a terminal COVID patient asked for ivermectin his doctor stated, “You might as well drink bleach.”  Another practitioner called it “witchcraft.”
  • The two U.S. patients needing hospital care in the article had ivermectin smuggled in to the hospital and miraculously, after a hard fight, got the hospitals to give it to them.
  • The change was ‘180 degrees,’ and they both lived to tell the tale.
  • We are being told there is no early treatment.  THIS IS A LIE.
  • People have died needlessly and government is complicit.

Important quote:

“It embarrasses me for what we have done in the U.S. in terms of this management,” Dr. Mobeen Syed, a medical educator with 395,000 YouTube subscribers, told me when we spoke of ivermectin for this article. “It embarrasses me that even though we have drug that is safer than Tylenol, we have made people resort to taking horse paste or animal products. We have done this to Americans.”

  • A data analyst researching pandemic trends makes a dire prediction: as the weather cools and people move indoors – the highly vaccinated states in the north are going to face a COVID catastrophe.  He states only early treatment can stop it.
  • This same analyst has documented ivermectin’s impact globally and found ivermectin has reduced hospitalizations dramatically.
  • In the U.S.; however, there is willful ignorance and demonization of ivermectin and early treatment, but speedy acceptance of ineffective and toxic drugs like remdesivir, and the belief that ‘vaccines’ are the only way out.
  • Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for a fast-tracked, experimental mRNA ‘vaccine’ only works if, “there are no adequate, approved, and available alternatives.”
  • The media is enabling censorship and fostering COVID fiction that treating COVID is a “right-wing” construct. They also dismiss ‘vaccine’ side effects and continue to call them ‘rare.’
  • Countries are caving to the U.S.-hatched COVID fiction.
  • Doctors’ licenses are being threatened, and reputations imperiled over using early treatments like ivermectin.
  • There were more than 500 deaths in the first year of remdesivir usage.
  • There have been 20 deaths in 19 years of ivermectin usage.
  • The FDA, spurred by “multiple” reports of ivermectin ‘poisoning,’ lied when it put out a post on it causing “serious harm, seizures, coma, and even death”.  When the author inquired on how many is “multiple,” she was told FOUR.  Yet, the FDA had no trouble approving remdesivir which has caused far more deaths.
  • CDC also bad-mouthed ivermectin and pushed the “calls to the poison control center” narrative. The problem is they give no data to support this claim.
  • In India, ivermectin is a house-hold name and easily available for about $2 at the nearest drug store.  People there no longer fear COVID.  They simply treat it.

The article discusses India’s successful usage of ivermectin for COVID. I’m also happy to report that there is an Awaken India Movement which shares resources and brings people together who desire freedom of choice and basic human rights.  The group demands no lockdowns, no mandatory masks, no mandatory social distancing, no mandatory testing, no mandatory vaccines, no GMO foods, no 5G, no tech censorship, no new normal, and no great reset.

This movement undoubtedly stems from the history of Bill Gate’s usage of India as his laboratory for his vaccine ventures in victimizing poor children, which was documented by filmmaker Mikki Willis in his 2020 documentary, Plandemic. You can watch the section on Bill Gates with English subtitles here, and with Hindi subtitles here.

Independent journalist Ben Swann also interviewed Mr. Willis to discuss the section of his documentary on India, and how much of what evil Bill Gates did in India regarding vaccine trials has been scrubbed from the Internet.

We can thank Sweden and India for their proper response to COVID.

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The Evidence for Persistent Lyme & Promising New Treatments

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The evidence for persistent Lyme and promising new treatments

by Kris Newby
Communications Director, Invisible International

Monica Embers, PhD, director of the vector-borne disease research center at Tulane University School of Medicine, summarizes evidence that suggests that Lyme bacteria can survive long after standard treatment protocols in a new online medical education course. She also discusses promising new treatment strategies for eradicating these bacteria.

Emerging evidence from animal studies suggest that the Lyme disease bacterium, Borrelia burgdorferi, is a clever trickster that uses multiple strategies to evade the immune system and survive long after an onslaught of the recommended course of antibiotics. This begs the question—Are our current Lyme treatment protocols all wrong?

In the accredited continuing medical education course, “Antibiotic efficacy for treatment of Lyme disease,” Monica Embers, associate professor of microbiology and immunology and a leading expert in investigating B. burgdorferi infections in a nonhuman primate model, summarizes current Lyme treatment protocols, key studies on antibiotic efficacy, and new strategies aimed at curing the infection.

“It’s clear from the cumulative evidence that persistent Lyme disease is a common occurrence and that we urgently need to explore more effective treatment strategies,” said Embers.

This new 32-minute course, part of Invisible International’s Montecalvo Platform for Tick-Borne Illness Education, has been approved for 0.5 CME credit by the American Academy of Family Physicians. Each CME course includes a list of studies cited in the lecture.

Doxycycline doesn’t clear Lyme bacteria

One of the more surprising revelations in the lecture is that doxycycline, the drug of choice for treating adults with Lyme disease, doesn’t clear all of the causative bacteria. It only slows their proliferation, disrupting cell-wall creation as each forms a copy of itself by splitting into two. When the Lyme bacteria sense doxycycline, they shapeshift into spherical, dormant forms called persister cells, so they can wait out the chemical storm.

Dr. Embers backs up these claims with a series of thoughtfully designed experiments on nonhuman primates, our closest mammalian relatives. In one study, she treated five rhesus macaques with a 28-day course of doxycycline and five without. A year after the trial began, nine out of the 10 macaques, both treated and untreated, showed signs of ongoing illness and live Lyme spirochetes were isolated. In addition, those that received doxycycline had more bacteria in the brain.

The study’s conclusion:

“We observed evidence of persistent, intact, metabolically-active B. burgdorferi after antibiotic treatment of disseminated infection and showed that persistence may not be reflected by maintenance of specific antibody production by the host.”

Simply put, treating with doxycycline didn’t seem to be a cure, and the Lyme bacteria appear to have ways of suppressing antibody production so that it can fly under the radar of the immune system.

Given this evidence, why does the medical establishment still recommend doxycycline as a front-line Lyme treatment? One reason is that doxycycline appears to be effective at most early infections, along with Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever and anaplasmosis, other serious tick-borne diseases that are often mistaken for Lyme disease in the early stages.

Overuse of mice as test subjects?

Embers also says that treatment study results may be skewed by the overuse of mice as test subjects. Mice are cheap, but they’re lousy stand-ins for humans. They’ve evolved alongside ticks to serve as a living holding tanks for the Lyme bacteria, so they don’t get as sick as humans when infected.

Lyme disease is the fastest vector-borne illness in the United States, with an estimated 476,000 new cases a year, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Approximately 10 to 20% of those treated with antibiotics go on to experience disabling long-haul symptoms, such as severe fatigue, joint/muscle pain, brain fog, and neurologic symptoms.

There have been no human treatment studies published in over 20 years, and only 0.30% of the National Institutes of Health Lyme research budget has been focused on human treatment studies in the last five years (2015-2019).

At the end of lecture, Dr. Embers cited several lab studies (bacteria-in-a-dish) and animal studies showing that a cocktail of three antibiotics are highly effective in eradicating the Lyme bacteria. (This study from Johns Hopkins found that a combination of daptomycin, cefoperazone and doxycycline was effective in eradicating persister cells.) But of course, clinical trials are needed to validate these findings.

Tick Bytes

One of the ways Invisible International is working to accelerate the movement of treatment evidence to patient care is by launching Tick Bytes, a centralized clinical data repository that provides quality de-identified tick-borne illness patient data to researchers nationwide.

Researchers can mine this data using advanced biostatistical methods to discover symptom profiles for mixed infections and treatment regimens that work. With this precision medicine approach, more quality evidence will reach physicians, insurers, and the government. This in turn will improve diagnostics and treatment options, leading to better outcomes, insurance coverage, and more sophisticated understanding of tick-borne diseases. Invisible is currently looking for funding for 10 data collection sites.

Dr. Embers’ CME course was funded by the Montecalvo Platform for Tick-Borne Illness Education, through Invisible International, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit foundation dedicated to reducing the suffering associated with invisible illnesses and social marginalization through innovation, education, and data-driven change projects. You can sign up to receive news and updates on our website.

Invisible International is a 501c3 that aims to solve challenges related to tick-borne illness through research and physician education. Its core team includes health care providers and scientists specializing in Infectious Disease, Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, Pathology, Pharmacy, Psychology, and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, as well as innovation and healthcare leaders.

Click here for more information about Invisible International.

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These Five Substances Protect Your Liver

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These Five Substances Protect Your Liver

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In a world rife with toxic exposures, you must protect your liver as if your life depends on it — because it does. Here are five substances that can help keep your hardest working organ humming

Your liver is one of the hardest working organs in your body, regulating an array of biological processes that are critical to health, such as metabolism, blood sugar, plasma and cholesterol production, and the removal and breakdown of toxins in the blood, to name only a few.

Liver diseases, also called hepatic diseases, are among the most serious threats to human health.[i] Adding to the risk is the lack of safe and effective treatments,[ii] as most synthetic drug-based interventions carry black-box warnings of potentially serious adverse side effects.

Five Hepatoprotective Substances

With modern life producing more pollutants than ever before and the standard American diet supplying a deluge of sugar and ultra-processed foods, it’s no surprise that your liver may benefit from an occasional boost of gentle nutritional support.

We’ve identified five of the top hepatoprotective substances on the planet to make it easy for natural health enthusiasts to stock their herbal medicine cabinets. In fact, a few of them may already be in your kitchen pantry. Adding therapeutic doses of these five foods is not only simple and convenient, they can also supply a boost of nutrients to keep your liver nourished and protected while it’s protecting you.

1. Curcumin

One of the active polyphenols in the spice turmeric, curcumin has numerous scientifically validated health benefits, including providing liver protection.[iii] Curcuminoids are responsible for the bright yellow color of turmeric and are also believed to deliver many of this spice’s beneficial properties, among which are powerful antioxidant effects.[iv]

Oxidative stress can cause a host of inflammatory injuries that damage healthy cells. A Chinese research team explored the use of curcumin to alleviate damage to liver cells caused by exposure to ethanol, the intoxicating ingredient found in many alcoholic beverages.

In the study, rats that were pretreated with curcumin before exposure to ethanol demonstrated less oxidative damage through measured enzymatic activity. Researchers concluded that oxidative damage to liver cells was significantly ameliorated by curcumin treatment.[v]

2. Coffee

While it’s common knowledge that consuming excessive alcohol can damage the liver, eating a primarily processed food diet may be just as hepatotoxic in the long-term. Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a global health concern affecting people who drink little to no alcohol. In the U.S., NAFLD is the most common form of chronic liver disease,[vi] likely owing to the sad state of the standard American diet.

When it comes to popular dietary habits, there is perhaps none more enduring than morning coffee, and fortunately for coffee’s many fans, it may also help protect against liver disease.

A 2016 meta-analysis compared the risk of NAFLD for individuals who did and did not drink coffee. It also compared the risk of liver fibrosis, the excessive build-up of proteins that occurs in many liver diseases, between NAFLD patients who did and did not drink coffee. The analysis showed a significantly decreased risk of NAFLD among coffee drinkers, as well as a significantly decreased risk of liver fibrosis among patients with NAFLD who drank coffee on a regular basis.[vii]

3. NAC (N-Acetyl Cysteine)

N-acetyl cysteine, or NAC, is a precursor of the amino acid L-cysteine that acts as a potent antioxidant. While L-cysteine is found in foods like poultry, eggs, yogurt and sulfur-rich vegetables, NAC can only be obtained in supplement form.[viii] NAC works by scavenging free radicals, especially oxygen radicals, making it a potentially powerful ally in the treatment of oxidative stress, a crucial factor in liver diseases.[ix]

The prescription of high-dose acetaminophen (APAP) for mild-to-moderate pain management is still commonplace, though it is increasingly recognized as high-risk. As a result of data revealing unintentional overdoses, in 2011 the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) asked pharmaceutical companies to limit the amount of APAP used in prescription pain relievers owing to risks of severe, even lethal, drug-induced liver failure.[x]

NAC has demonstrated significant promise as a hepatoprotective substance partly due to its ability to efficiently block acetaminophen toxicity. A 2015 study showed that administration of NAC within eight hours of APAP overdose effectively mitigates hepatotoxicity, advising that this over-the-counter supplement “can provide a convenient and effective way of preventing toxicity associated with large dosage of APAP.”[xi]

4. Ginsenosides

Responsible for the pharmacological effects of ginseng, ginsenosides play a critical role in the body’s inflammatory and disease responses and have shown impressive potential in the prevention and treatment of liver diseases. Clinical studies have shown the ameliorative effects of ginsenosides against acetaminophen-induced hepatotoxicity.[xii],[xiii]

Another recent study demonstrated that the anti-inflammatory power of ginsenosides promotes the healthy metabolism of fat by the liver and may alleviate liver injury in patients with fatty liver disease.[xiv]This potent polyphenol comes in supplement form as an extract of the Panax ginseng root and makes a great addition to a smoothie or nutritional shake.

5. Vitamin E

Vitamin E is a fat-soluble nutrient found in many foods, including wheat germ, nuts, seeds and green vegetables. Important for eye health and the quality of blood and tissue, vitamin E’s antioxidant properties also play a role in healthy liver function. A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials found that vitamin E supplementation significantly improved liver function and the quality of liver cells and tissues in patients with NAFLD.[xv]

Vitamin E also protected the liver against oxidative damage caused by exposure to formaldehyde.[xvi] Formaldehyde is one of the most common home and industrial toxins in use today, found in products like carpeting, curtains, wood cabinets and furnishings, and products such as glues, paints, pesticides, cosmetics and detergents.[xvii]

Protecting Your Liver — For Life

In our modern, chemical-filled world, a healthy liver is essential to stay ahead of the toxic curve. Protect yours naturally — your life depends on it. To learn more about liver diseases and naturally hepatotoxic substances, consult GreenMedInfo.com’s research databasefor up-to-the-minute science-based natural health information.

References

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[ii] Shamsi-Baghbanan H, Sharifian A, Esmaeili S, Minaei B. Hepatoprotective herbs, avicenna viewpoint. Iran Red Crescent Med J. 2014;16(1):e12313. doi:10.5812/ircmj.12313 [PubMed]

[iii]Hewlings SJ, Kalman DS. Curcumin: A Review of Its Effects on Human Health. Foods. 2017;6(10):92. Published 2017 Oct 22. doi:10.3390/foods6100092 [PubMed]

[iv]Curcumin: From ancient medicine to current clinical trials. H. Hatcher, R. Planalp, J. Cho, F. M. Torti, S. V. Torti. Cell Mol Life Sci. 2008 Jun; 65(11): 1631-1652. doi: 10.1007/s00018-008-7452-4. PMID: 18324353

[v] Wei Bao, Ke Li, Shuang Rong, Ping Yao, Liping Hao, Chenjiang Ying, Xiping Zhang, Andreas Nussler, Liegang Liu. Curcumin alleviates ethanol-induced hepatocytes oxidative damage involving heme oxygenase-1 induction. J Ethnopharmacol. 2010 Jan 18. Epub 2010 Jan 18. PMID: 20080166

[vi] Mayo Clinic, Diseases and Conditions, Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/nonalcoholic-fatty-liver-disease/symptoms-causes/syc-20354567

[vii]Karn Wijarnpreecha, Charat Thongprayoon, Patompong Ungprasert. Coffee consumption and risk of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Eur J Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2016 Nov 7. Epub 2016 Aug 7. PMID: 27824642

[viii]WebMD, Diet, Health Benefits, NAC, https://www.webmd.com/diet/health-benefits-nac

[ix]Mokhtari V, Afsharian P, Shahhoseini M, Kalantar SM, Moini A. A Review on Various Uses of N-Acetyl Cysteine. Cell J. 2017;19(1):11-17. doi:10.22074/cellj.2016.4872 [PubMed]

[x]FDA.gov, Drugs, Drug Safety and Availability, FDA Drug Safety Communication: Prescription Acetaminophen Products to be Limited to 325 mg Per Dosage Unit; Boxed Warning Will Highlight Potential for Severe Liver Failure, https://www.fda.gov/drugs/drug-safety-and-availability/fda-drug-safety-communication-prescription-acetaminophen-products-be-limited-325-mg-dosage-unit

[xi]Solomon E Owumi, James P Andrus, Leonard A Herzenberg, Leonore A Herzenberg. Co-administration of N-Acetylcysteine and Acetaminophen Efficiently Blocks Acetaminophen Toxicity. Drug Dev Res. 2015 Aug ;76(5):251-8. Epub 2015 Aug 7. PMID: 26250417

[xii]Jun-Nan Hu, Zhi Liu, Zi Wang, Xin-Dian Li, Lian-Xue Zhang, Wei Li, Ying-Ping Wang. Ameliorative Effects and Possible Molecular Mechanism of Action of Black Ginseng (Panax ginseng) on Acetaminophen-Mediated Liver Injury. Molecules. 2017 Apr 21 ;22(4). Epub 2017 Apr 21. PMID: 28430162

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