Eclectic Institute Raw Freeze-Dried Non-GMO Milk Thistle | with silymarin for Liver Support – Detox, Cleanse & Maintain | 240 CT

High Quality, Excellent Purity
This is a high quality product at an economical price (when you buy the large size). It contains only fresh, freeze dried organic milk thistle seed. No fillers, no solvents, no chemical processing of any kind. If only more supplement companies would get on board with these concepts!This is a whole food product (just pure milk thistle seed). Many companies will sell you extracts of highly concentrated active ingredients, having separated out certain phytochemicals that are known to beneficial. While this can be appropriate in some cases where very high concentrated doses of a compound are needed, I think it is wiser to use the whole plant food rather than an extract. We only know a thin slice of information about phytochemicals. When we extract only one or two known chemicals, what are we leaving behind?Nature is very wise in making her whole foods… for instance casein (a milk protein) acts as a cancer promoter, but whey (another milk protein) acts as a cancer suppressor. Eating whole milk products gets you both. Eating large amounts of purified casein by itself is foolhardy. Some people need extra casein to treat muscle wasting, but they should only take it combined with whey, so they avoid any cancer risk. Similarly, the guava fruit contains both pro-diarreah and anti-diarrhea compounds, so if you eat the whole fruit it should not alter your bowel function, but if you eat only certain parts you will get side effects. Because there are many examples like this in the plant world, I think it is best to take whole plant supplements in general. Not to mention that the solvents used to extract the phytochemicals can be poisonous to you.Eclectic Institute is on to a good thing.You have to remember when using whole plant products that the dose of the “active ingredient” will be smaller than in a pill that has been solvent extracted. For instance, this brand has 600 mg of milk thistle seed per capsule, and in that 600 mg of seed there is 24 mg of Silymarin, the phytochemical known to support liver function. If you are trying to reach a target dose, you may have to take more than one capsule. But, your are getting not only the Silymarin, your are getting dozens of other phytochemicals that may not yet even have been discovered and could potentially help you. Humans have been eating whole milk thistle seed for thousands of years, noting it’s beneficial effects. You don’t have to take chemically purified extracts, you can just eat or take the whole food.If you want to get milk thistle benefits for even less money, find a source of whole organic milk thistle seeds and find creative ways to add them to your diet. If you want the convenience of a pre-measured dose in a capsule, then this is one of the best brands.

Eclectic Institute-Orgaanic Raw Milk Thistle is Potent!
My father was diagnosed with alcoholic liver cirrhosis aprox 5 years ago & was told in no uncertain terms by the doctors you drink & you will die! So he did not listen & ended up in the hospital w/3 days to 3 weeks to live-I was told to fly down there asap as I live overseas; & the two days I had prior I hit the net to see if there was anything I could find to help him…what I found was livercare by Himalaya brand; backed by 50 yrs worth of clinical trials & countless reviews. Looking through the clinical trials a person in his condition meaning your organs are literally failing, should take 6 pills per day, 2 pills x 3 a day, this coupled with milk thistle-we did 3 per day as this is suppose to compliment & really boost the livercare aka liv52 (liv52 seems inferior due to the enteric coating of red die banned in most countries however if that is all you have access to then just wash off he red coloring as most people do) Livecare was created with the same potent ingredients w/out red die for the USA market. We have upped the MT to 6 per day now- going on three months later & the results have been nothing short of a miracle!! I have to be honest when I arrived & saw the condition he was in I felt that giving him the aforementioned products would prove fruitless, but then I had nothing to lose & I am so glad we gave it to him religiously-his eyes & skin were bright yellow from the jaundice but slowly & surely his coloring resumed back to normal, he did have ascites -where the fluid builds up in the stomach because the fluids don’t drain through the normal channels ie. liver & had two draining’s off a gallon plus fluids from his abdomen twice with a month in between-in clinical trials after 6 months this fluid build up is suppose to stop.All I want to say is I was desperate my father was dying & these products have bought me more time with someone I love with all my heart.

Amazing Herb!!! 10-Stars, easy!!!
For years I’ve read about MT’s beneficial help to the Liver. I am stressed by the slightest things and always experience sweaty, smelly underarms (and groin). Deodorant could N E V E R block this occurrence for me. After 2 doses (4 caps each), I immediately noticed minimal to zero sweating, and most notably, no funk!!! My shirts stayed dry at the armpits all day long. I wondered if this was just a short-term response, but it’s been a month of use now and I’m still smelling good/neutral regardless of stress. Even times that I do sweat, I remain funk-free. I wish I hadn’t waited all these years to start using Milk Thistle.