Is possible with a good diet to stop the progression?!

[Noku77]

Hello everyone,
I have been diagnosed with hep C almost 6 month ago during a common blood test. After I have seeing a doctor he suggested me to wait (refering him the desease was in moderate stages) and to make regular blood tests every 6 months. I did some of those test yesterday and it came out these results

ALT (SGPT)                43.8              U/L
AST(SGOT)                39.4            U/L
Direct Billurbin             0.28          mg/dL
Indirect Bilurbin           0.44            mg/dL
Total bilurbin               0.72          mg/dL

Serum protein electrophresis
Fraction                                 %                
Albumin                                 56
Alpha 1                                  3.9
Alpha 2                                  8.9
Beta1                                     7.2
Beta2                                     6.4
Gamma                                 17.6

About 5 months ago I had these Results
ALT (SGPT)                56.8            U/L
AST(SGOT)                38.4            U/L
Direct Bilurbin             0.354          mg/dL
Indirect Bilurbin           0.61            mg/dL
Total bilurbin               0.962          mg/dL

Serum protein electrophresis
Fraction                                 %                
Albumin                                55.1
Alpha 1                                  4
Alpha 2                                10.9
Beta                                      9.7
Gamma                                20.3

I also made a elastography test and before 5 months the max value was 7kPa now the max value is 6.5kPa and was not an enlarge liver like use to be months ago. During all this time I have been very careful with food eating only beans, cabbages, spinach, black rice, carrots a lot of kiwi, apples, home made cottage cheese, green tea, green salads, a lot of olive oil extra virgin homemade one,  etc. Alcohol stopped, even smell it.
My question is that, Is it possible that through a good diet you might slow the progress of liver damages from Hep C virus?!  

[Noku77]

Thank you for your reply. Yes it is phase 0-1. When I discover that I do have the Hep C it was devastating. I was shocked. I was feeling pain on my muscles legs and I was feeling very unpowered. so very depress like I was living the last days. I met doctor here and they told me that I must start the theraphy asap. After that I have decided to go in Italy where i meet one of the best doctors. I was lucky. After the examination of the blood test he told me that the desease was in a moderate stage and it was on my hand if I wanted to start treatment. Than I asked him based on his experience because by that time I was so decided to go through tx. He told me to wait a couple of years, meanwhile new treatments are on the way. So I decided to wait. By the way I have gen 1B.
Regards
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[dontworry_behappy1]

Hi Kity,
It's not something that I found on the Internet.  The best way for you to confirm that fact - is to ask your doctor.
Happy:)

[mzkity]

I just kept searching and searching. But it was good because found other things about alcohol. Kind of on a campaign over here. Lol! :):)

[dontworry_behappy1]

I have had more than one doctor tell me that it takes a very longtime for toxins to leave your liver.  I too started looking when it came up that doctors want people to wait 6 months after your last drink to start treatment.   There was another post about why doctors want you to wait that long.  I know it is a requirement of transplant patient and was surprised that its also required for Hepatitis C treatment.  Toxin take time to leave your liver is what my doctor
implied... Alcohol is a toxin to your liver.  Can't say I disagree with that.

Happy :)

[pooh55811]

and don'tworry_behappy1

I have no idea why a doctor would tell a patient that it takes 4 months for 1 alcoholic drink to process through the liver because it simply is not true.

If it were true, then a person could process only 3 drinks one year. If a person drank 1 glass of wine with dinner every night for a year in 1970, then it would take 120.666 years to process the daily glass of wine for that year alone.

If the person drank a glass of wine with dinner once a week for one year, then it would take 17.333 years to process that wine. In that scenario the person would just now be finishing processing the weekly glass of wine that he drank during the year in 1996.

Like I said, I have no idea why any doctor would ever tell a patient that kind of a story.

mzkity, I think this article will answer your questions about alcohol metabolism:

http://alcoholism.about.com/cs/alerts/l/blnaa35.htm

[can-do-man]

Well if my doctor told me that nonsense I would find a new doctor, I guess I won't be sober until at least 2100....:)