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Milk Thistle Help Liver Disease
A reader who has a fatty liver wants to know if taking the herb milk thistle could help lower his elevated liver enzymes. In this article, Dr. Mitchell Hecht responds with information on the long-term use of milk thistle for fatty liver. He also discusses some foods that people with fatty liver should avoid in order to speed weight loss.
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