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Supplements to compliment Interferon treatment
Hi all,
To all the Interferon patient out there, is there any supplement we should take with Interferon mono therapy and any we should avoid.
Thank you.
To all the Interferon patient out there, is there any supplement we should take with Interferon mono therapy and any we should avoid.
Thank you.
I think moderation is the key. What about supplements like selenium, zinc and calcium?
IMO, the key here is not to overdo. I have built my Vit D level from 48nmol/L to 129nmol/L before treatment. That's equivalent to 51.6ng/ml in this forum's scale. Australia use nmol/L measurement. So I have low Vit D level all my life until I started taking Vitamin D3 supplements 4 months ago.
Now my maintenance dose is about 5000iu per day.
IMO, the key here is not to overdo. I have built my Vit D level from 48nmol/L to 129nmol/L before treatment. That's equivalent to 51.6ng/ml in this forum's scale. Australia use nmol/L measurement. So I have low Vit D level all my life until I started taking Vitamin D3 supplements 4 months ago.
Now my maintenance dose is about 5000iu per day.
Many thanks for the reference. The research is from Hong Kong, funny, Chinese are not known as heavy coffee drinkers and I think they may favor a milky type of coffee.
The item I refer to is as follow, it is a test-tube study, I think. I don't have access to the full article.
Nature Reviews Gastroenterology and Hepatology 10, 442 (August 2013) | doi:10.1038/nrgastro.2013.130
Liver: How caffeine affects liver fibrosis is revealed
Abstract
A recent study has found that caffeine inhibits the adhesion and activation of hepatic stellate cells, which attenuates the progression of liver fibrosis. The researchers assessed cell migration and proliferation of LX-2 cells (an immortalized human hepatic stellate cell line) in vitro in the presence of different caffeine concentrations.
The item I refer to is as follow, it is a test-tube study, I think. I don't have access to the full article.
Nature Reviews Gastroenterology and Hepatology 10, 442 (August 2013) | doi:10.1038/nrgastro.2013.130
Liver: How caffeine affects liver fibrosis is revealed
Abstract
A recent study has found that caffeine inhibits the adhesion and activation of hepatic stellate cells, which attenuates the progression of liver fibrosis. The researchers assessed cell migration and proliferation of LX-2 cells (an immortalized human hepatic stellate cell line) in vitro in the presence of different caffeine concentrations.
"The prevalence of advanced fibrosis among patients with mild to moderate alcohol intake (26, 18.8%) was comparable to that among non-drinkers (190, 21.0%) (P = 0.57)" - this is a unsuspected conclusion.
also moderate sport can help.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9272775
http://jap.physiology.org/content/59/2/426.abstract
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9272775
http://jap.physiology.org/content/59/2/426.abstract
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1432-2277.2010.01141.x/full
Vitamin D supplementation improves response to antiviral treatment for recurrent hepatitis C
interesting data although about hcv, ridiculous doses 800iu daily used but still giving results, the study is old so still using the low doses at that time
Vitamin D supplementation improves response to antiviral treatment for recurrent hepatitis C
interesting data although about hcv, ridiculous doses 800iu daily used but still giving results, the study is old so still using the low doses at that time
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