Life Extension Advanced Milk Thistle, advanced preparation, 120 softgels

This formula provides the benefits of milk thistle with silymarin, silibinins and isosilybin A and B, as well as phospholipids for better absorption. These compounds fully support liver health.

Liver health formulas made with milk thistle have been used for centuries. Advanced milk thistle extract contains phytonutrients that fight oxidative stress and support liver health. The combination of silybin with phosphatidylcholine and other phospholipids improves the absorption of milk thistle's active ingredients, ensuring effective liver health support.

Milk thistle compounds support liver health and phospholipids promote their absorption for improved health support.

Benefits of Advanced Milk Thistle

• Provides standardized nutrients to promote liver health & function
• Supports the natural detoxification process in the body
• Promotes healthy cell division in the liver
• Improves the absorption of active ingredients in the bloodstream

Milk Thistle for Liver Health

Milk thistle contains powerful compounds that are beneficial not only for the liver but also for overall health and vitality throughout the body. However, the active ingredient in milk thistle, silybin, does not dissolve well in water, making it difficult for the body to absorb it. Our milk thistle formula overcomes this hurdle by blending silybin with a nutrient called phosphatidylcholine to increase absorption.

Healthy liver, healthy body

Modern life puts a lot of strain on the liver, so it's important to be proactive in maintaining liver health. This is where hepato-protective herbs like milk thistle come in. Milk thistle contains antioxidants that support not only liver health, but overall health as well.

Silymarin is extracted from milk thistle. This extract is a powerful free radical scavenger that promotes healthy liver function on its own. Thanks to advanced extraction technology, we have now been able to isolate other components in the silymarin extract itself and test their ability to support liver health and more.

Other compounds in our milk thistle extract

Silibinin is another compound found in our high-quality milk thistle extract. It is composed of silybins A and B and is the most biologically active flavonolignan component in milk thistle extract. Its beneficial effects for the liver have been demonstrated in preclinical and clinical studies. Other milk thistle extracts, called isosilybin A and B, have been shown to be very efficient in helping to maintain healthy cell division.

Phosphatidylcholine and other phospholipids improve the release of milk thistle

The main bioactive compound in milk thistle, called silybin, does not dissolve well in water, making it difficult for the body to absorb it. Scientists have overcome the poor bioavailability of silybin by incorporating it into a phytosome, a tiny ball of plant-based phosphatidylcholine.

This phosphatidylcholine-based delivery system facilitates transport across the intestinal mucosa into the bloodstream, making it an ideal carrier molecule for silybin. Scientists believe that phosphatidylcholine binds molecularly to silybin and helps guide it across the cell membranes in the intestinal tract, thereby enhancing the delivery of milk thistle extracts' liver health benefits.

Preclinical and clinical evidence showed that this silybin-phosphatidylcholine complex resulted in almost 5-fold higher blood concentrations of silybin than silymarin alone, and that its final bioavailability to the liver, its target organ, is up to 10-fold higher than that of pure silymarin.