The impact of nutrition, exercise, and pharmacotherapy on menstrual health in adolescents with overweight and obesity
It has a long history of use as a botanical remedy dating back to the fourth century BCE, when ancient Greeks regarded it as a general medicinal herb.1 Since then, it has been used to treat an array of ailments, including but not limited to: Hepatitis Cirrhosis Jaundice Diabetes The active ingredient in milk thistle is silymarin, a group of flavonoids that comprises silybin, silychristin, isosilybin, and silidianin.11 Silymarin is whats known as a free radical scavenger, otherwise known as an antioxidant
Attempts at this have already been initiated, through the preclinical and clinical studies that have been conducted for conditions as diverse as hypertension, heart failure, and coronary artery disease
Glutathione is believed to inhibit the activity of tyrosinase, thereby reducing melanin synthesis and resulting in lighter and brighter skin