Study: Vitamin E heals your liver in almost half of liver diseases

Here's a brief background on why it works:

Vitamin E is an "anti-oxidant", which means it helps prevent damage from free radicals and other tissue-damaging molecules. Some of the tissue-damaging molecules that anti-oxidants protect against are actually poisons and toxins secreted by infectious bacteria! When your liver is damaged, quite often the damage is exactly that kind of tissue damage -- due to toxins, poisons or infections that damage tissue.

In those cases, Vitamin E and other water-based and oil-based anti-oxidants will help your liver. Not only does your liver get these nutrients and protective ingredients in the blood supply, but the liver is the first organ that the blood from your intestines go to. So the liver gets bathed with nutrients and anti-oxidants first, when you eat medicinal foods.

For that reason, the liver responds very well to nutritional healing, including healing tissue damage with anti-oxidants and other protective molecules.

Other protective, liver-healing medicines that have been studied are Silymarin (extract of Milk Thistle) and SAM-e.

Vitamin E Helps Treat Common Liver Disease
Effective in almost half of common liver diseases
By Ed Edelson, HealthDay Reporter
[link to health.usnews.com]
WEDNESDAY, April 28 (HealthDay News) -- A new study has identified vitamin E as a treatment that can provide relief for many of the estimated 10 million Americans who have the most common chronic liver disease.

"This clearly shows that vitamin E is effective for treatment of patients with nonalcoholic steatohepatitis who don't have active diabetes," said study author Dr. Arun J. Sanyal, chairman of the division of gastroenterology, hepatology and nutrition at Virginia Commonwealth University. A report on the trial is published in the April 28 online edition of the New England Journal of Medicine.

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Last Edited by SPUD on 11/27/2011 02:11 PM