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The following chart includes the current therapies used in a current study supported by the National Institute of Health and taking place in Seattle under the guidance of Bastyr University.  It is NOT to be used as a guide to treatment.  Results of this study are not yet available.

 

PRODUCT NAME                AMOUNT      DESCIPTION OF ACTION

Siliphos®
360 mg

1 cap tid

Anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, anti-fibrotic, iron chelator, increased mitosis of healthy hepatocytes.

Glycyrrhiza
800 mg
(Licorice Root Extract, 6% Glycyrrhizin)

1 cap tid

Anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, stabilizes hepatocyte membranes.

Actigall™
300 mg
(ursodeoxycholic acid)

1 cap bid

Restores damaged bile ducts, induces choleresis, stabilizes hepatocyte membrane by preventing solubilization of cholesterol and phospholipids, increases hepatic blood flow.

Colchicine
0.6 mg

1 cap bid
5 days per week

Enhances collagenase expression, stimulates collagenase secretion, inhibits collagen synthesis by hepatic fibroblasts, decreases IL-1.

Phosphatidyicholine (1200 mg soy phosphalids complex and 420 mg phosphalidylcholine)

2 cap tid

Protects and stabilizes hepatocyte membrane Hepatoprotection against xenobiotics. Primary source of choline.

Vitamin E 400 IU
(d-alpha-tocopherol)

1 gelcap bid

Hepatoprotective by directly inhibiting lipid peroxidation.

Selenium citrate
200 mcg

1 cap bid

Antioxidant, incorporated to selenocysteine, a component of glutathione peroxidase, necessary for catalyzing reduction of peroxides.

Thiocid
(alpha-lipoic acid)
100 mg

2 cap tid

Chelates iron, antioxidant, free radical scavenger. Helps maintain hepatic vitamin C and E levels. Increases reduced glutalhione.

 

 
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