Welcome to the Doctor Burg, Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast.

Now, your host, the man taking your health to a whole new level.

Doctor Eric Burg.

Let's talk about the amazing benefits of milk thistle.

It's a very powerful herb that can help your liver cells.

They're called hepatocytes.

What's in this herb that's creating this massive effect?

Well, it just happens to be a special group of phytoneutrients collectively called selimorin.

And if you're going to take this herb, I would always recommend taking the whole herb and not just this extracted compound

because there's a lot of other things in it that can help you.

But it strengthens the hepatocytes.

This is a liver cell.

It has a serious antioxidant function.

When your body makes oxidants like hydrogen peroxide to kill certain microbes in immune reaction,

milk thistle can help counter that.

Also, if you have to take certain medication or drugs for some disorder,

if you take milk thistle, that can actually counter the effects of those drugs.

So it decreases the collateral damage that these create right here,

which is basically a lot of free radicals.

Also, alcohol.

If you're going to consume some alcohol, which I'm not recommending,

and you took some of this afterwards, it would decrease some of the damage.

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