Let’s explore the evidence-based benefits, possible side effects, and best practices for using milk thistle for liver health.

The flavonoid silymarin and one of its structural components, silibinin, are substances with documented hepatoprotective properties. Their mechanisms of action are still poorly understood.

I’m from a thistle and can help your liver. What molecule am I? Silymarin has been used in traditional medicine for centuries; it is even alluded to in the Old Testament (Genesis 3:18). Ancient ...

The results of most clinical trials with the thistle (Silybum marianum) extract, silymarin, are difficult to interpret because of a variety of reasons: small sample size, variability in type and ...