Restoring your liver
It’s a well-known fact that bodybuilders drink alcohol - and this is especially true for younger lifters. It’s also a well-known fact that alcohol consumption is one of the best ways to cripple muscle growth and trigger system-wide inflammation damage. Drinking also damages your liver.
New research has shown that there is hope - by using supplements, it may be possible to reverse some of the liver damage caused by drinking.
South Korean researchers combined the supplement ingredient taurine with beta-cyclodextrin and fed the mixture to mice that had previously been given ethanol. The researchers also had a control group of mice that did not receive anything, and a group of mice that exclusively received only ethanol. The aim of the study was to examine the effects of the mixture on lipid metabolism and hepatic cell damage in the mice.
The researchers gave the mixture to mice for 6 months, via their drinking water, and measured their levels of serum lipids, serum enzymes and degree of hepatic damage. Not surprisingly, researchers found that the ethanol-only group had high levels of cholesterol and liver damage, while the group that received neither ethanol nor the supplement mixed were unchanged.
In the group that was treated with ethanol followed up with treatment by the taurine and beta-cyclodextrin mixture, researchers found that there were significant decreases in overall cholesterol levels, and a dramatic reduction in hepatic marker levels - meaning that their livers were healthier.
Researchers concluded that the mixture of taurine and beta-cyclodextrin was successful in repairing the liver damage caused by the ethanol alcohol.
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