Dear Dr. Rosenfeld;
As one with hepatitis C (genotype 1 - predominant in USA) I have failed
normal pharmaceutical medications (peginterferon/ribavirin) not once,
but twice, the second time requiring me to be hospitalized for two
weeks to recover from a variety of blood levels all out of shape.
I have since completely removed myself from any pharmaceutical
medications for my disease. And with much research, placed myself
on a
herbal/natural program of my own design, with some helpful
recommendations from some others as well.
For a long time Milk Thistle has been a recommended product for this
sort of liver disease. There is much study related information
supporting this as well - see: http://www.ultrathistle.com/
All recent studies claiming milk thistle does nothing for liver health
focuses on lose dose milk thistle, normally around 100-150mg
3x/daily.
However, real study base dosage recommendations run at 360mg or more
3x/daily.
And none of the pharmaceutical studies used SILIPHOS® in their
studies, but a less effective milk thistle extract.
I'm actually looking at moving over to a higher dosage Milk Thistle
product: http://www.liverfriend.com/product_info.php?products_id=495
But I've been rather amazed to see milk thistle come under fire from
our pharmaceutical community as much as it has for the past year.
Here
is a link to one of the many attacks I've seen directed at milk thistle
over this past year:
http://hepatitis-central.com/mt/archives/2006/01/conclusions_abo.html
It is obvious we need study results with higher dosage and using
Silybin Phytosome or
SILIPHOS®, as opposed to the milk thistle extract at low dosage
these
studies have focused on - but why go public with marginal of faulty
research in the first place is MY question?
This rather tells me our pharmaceutical community fears the healing
properties of MilkThistle and is trying to steer the diseased away from
it for strictly financial reasons!
Here's a last link to Dr. Murry's milk thistle commentary: SILIPHOST: Nature's Potent Liver Remedy.
My sincere apologies for the length of this email, as I knew the need
to keep this minimal in size, but to spot on necessary and informative
aspects of this issue is actually what dictated size here.
Hopefully some day we'll arrive with some other pharmaceutical
medication with a far greater success rate and a far less side effects
than the current two types of peginterferon/ribavirin (which really
has a success rate running in the 30-40 percent range {my
gastroenterologist at Kaiser Permanente states a claim of 40-45 percent
success rate last time I inquired for 'gut feel' on success rate of
these medications} - that's labrat turf for the patients!).
Lastly, here's my comments of the medication trial monitored thru USC
Medical Center that I went thru: http://borderline.gotdns.org/REPEATtrial.html.
Of related importance perhaps would be my weblog of reactions to this
medication routine: http://borderline.gotdns.org/trialdiary.html...
As you may well know, the patient with hepatitis C is currently caught
between the proverbial 'rock-n-hard place'... Making the
herbal/natural approach a far safer path for one to take... And
we
have as well the ill effect of medical professionals with wide
publication incorrectly using the very CURE word - see HEPATITIS DOCTOR HOME...
When there is good indication regardless of a successful medication
routine, where SVR is claimed/announced (Sustained Virological
Response), there is NO such thing as a CURE for hepatitis C - see: Post
successful medication routine & SVR Is The Virus Gone?-(Sept 2004 hepc.bull)
Thanks for being there on FoxNews!
Thank You,
-Patrick Martin
xxxxx Brooke Ave.
Chatsworth, CA 91311
home: 818 xxx-xxxx
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