I have been reading - with INTEREST - the Supplement Discussion - Thoughts and Questions?

[meki]

OK Check it out - I've been reading some of the posts regarding using HR's list of supplements (which I cannot find, btw... LOL - someone have a link?)

But I'm curious - would these supplements - help people who are SVR and trying to help the liver become more healthy?

Would the supplements work for a non HCV person - as a decent regimen for supplemental health?

Give me your thoughts on this.

I'm one year and a couple months post TX - and SVR... But I'm kinda interested in speeding along the recovery of my poor little liver. I'd like to see a better response to "GETTING BETTER".

Whatchu think?

I mean - CockSparrow's and Gauf's results are definitely much to think about. SERIOUSLY think about.

Meki

[CockSparrow]

You can kinda tell an HR post cant ya.
CS

[Mikkimoe]

Works for me - thanks

[scratchinghead]

Sounds like HR stuff. Which means it's good stuff.

[CockSparrow]

Heres the info on PPC v PC. From the thread.
http://www.medhelp.org/posts/show/346752

No. its NOT just choline, very far from that. It is a polyunsaturated fatty acid attached to phosphatidyl-choline. I do not like to mention any brand names here, but this is too important to let it go into nowhere. Check the brand name hepatopro. This is exactly that PPC compound mentioned in the article above.

No, lecithin ("choline in food?")was used as a control in the Charles Lieber trials and failed to give the same effect, not surprisingly, considering the importance of the fatty acid tail to be polyunsaturated for membane fluidity and functionality

As mentioned before : PPC  its NOT just choline, very far from that. It is a polyunsaturated fatty acid attached to phosphatidyl-choline. "Lecithin" is sometimes used synonomous with phosphatidylcholine without the fatty acid, sometimes with it but it is a compound with A SATURATED fatty acid. And sometimes just with a lot of fat, without the phosphatidylcholine.

I think you can join the dots from there.

I am trying to stay outa this.

All the Best
CS

[zellyf]

Here's something:

http://www.medhelp.org/posts/show/346752

[mike716]

Thanks for the www.****.com link. Didn´t know that one.

I will post the results of my searches for supplements here in Buenos Aires and around our little planet.

Re the PPC thing, I still can´t find anything that says what the difference between polyenyl-phosphatidylcholine and just plain phosphatidylcholine really is. Also, whether PPC, apparently a lot better than plain old PC, is also extracted from soy lecithin, or whether it´s some kind of special product that isn´t available naturally.

I don´t think we´ve gotten to the bottom of this yet.

Mike