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Why is it we all believe coffee reverses cirrosis if the liver and help lower ALT/AS.and its just a food,BUT,when we talk about other foods which can also help,it get knocked down,function foods such as medicinal mushroom and othe food extracts?
Thanks for posting Dietrich's comments. I never get tired of reading positive stuff like that.
My kids do. How else they gonna get the energy to work in the sweat shop? I ain't running no sissy day camp for entited tweeners. They don't drink the good stuff though.
What about adults cirrhosis? That's the real question... I mean most kids don't drink coffee, do they?
Here is a question/answer to/from Dr. Dietrich when he was entertaining questions. He makes a distinction between fibrosis and cirrhosis when it comes to post-svr expectations:
Q: For a person who has achieved svr what should be the expectation for the reversal/repair of firbrosis and/or cirrhosis? Secondly, if it's medically necessary to evaluate such recovery/repair; how, when and should it be it be done?
A: If you had mild (Childs A )cirrhosis or anything less in fibrosis score, after SVR it should all go away. Your liver should return to normal. However in people with established cirrhosis, there may be a continuing risk of liver cancer so screening once or twice per year may be in order. Follow up biopsy is not really indicated. Good luck!
No reference to a Starbuck's double latte.
Q: For a person who has achieved svr what should be the expectation for the reversal/repair of firbrosis and/or cirrhosis? Secondly, if it's medically necessary to evaluate such recovery/repair; how, when and should it be it be done?
A: If you had mild (Childs A )cirrhosis or anything less in fibrosis score, after SVR it should all go away. Your liver should return to normal. However in people with established cirrhosis, there may be a continuing risk of liver cancer so screening once or twice per year may be in order. Follow up biopsy is not really indicated. Good luck!
No reference to a Starbuck's double latte.
Just got back from school,sorry,dindt mean to imply 'WE all believe coffee reverses liver damage',i just had the impression most people,i for my self am still wary.Ill stick with my fungus and bacteria(algae)
I don't think it really hurts your liver more than anything else. As for fixing my liver well I'd always have been a stage zero if that were true because I drink enough of the stuff and always have.
Most people are reasonable and really don't believe any one thing could do all that much to reverse years and years of damage done by a virus / and or bad living styles.
Most people are reasonable and really don't believe any one thing could do all that much to reverse years and years of damage done by a virus / and or bad living styles.
"Why is it we all believe coffee reverses cirrosis if the liver and help lower ALT/AS......."
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1) We all don't believe that. I kinda hate seeing it in print. : (
2) The studies suggested that drinking coffee may reduce the speed of liver damage progression. That is a very different thing than "reverses cirrosis".
3) Regarding coffee, there have been many large studies in reasonably well designed trials. There is a large body of evidence that supports that coffee may slow damage progression but it still isn't fact, although it may be working it's way towards that. A larger or better designed series of trials could debunk it as myth.
Willy
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1) We all don't believe that. I kinda hate seeing it in print. : (
2) The studies suggested that drinking coffee may reduce the speed of liver damage progression. That is a very different thing than "reverses cirrosis".
3) Regarding coffee, there have been many large studies in reasonably well designed trials. There is a large body of evidence that supports that coffee may slow damage progression but it still isn't fact, although it may be working it's way towards that. A larger or better designed series of trials could debunk it as myth.
Willy
I don't belive so either. So, "we all believe" is misleading. For now, coffee fixing liver damage is in the parking space next to man-made global warning and a row away from nessie which is next to space number fifty-one.
What I might buy into: That a person with fibrosis who successfully treats hcv and attains svr can expect improved liver condition, even if a coffee drinker.
What I might buy into: That a person with fibrosis who successfully treats hcv and attains svr can expect improved liver condition, even if a coffee drinker.
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