Dear @Mich,
Welcome to the forum and thanks for sharing your story as well as the kind words. It’s great to hear that you are taking active steps to change your lifestyle for the better and maintaining monitoring.
Regarding your questions:
- Supplements are always a hard one to answer. Unless you have a proven deficiency in something, there’s little/no evidence that they help at all. I am unaware of any Hep B related issues with Vit C or collagen though.
- There is a previous discussion on whey powder here: Lifestyle changes, nutrition, and supplements for hep b - #94 by ThomasTu.
- I believe the more you can reduce alcohol intake, the better. But it should be a change that you can stick to (no use trying to quit and then binging because you can’t take it). There is some discussion on this elsewhere on the board: Vices - alcohol marijuana etc - #2 by ThomasTu.
- I don’t know if green tea has an effect either way. Some studies have found an protective effect on liver cancer rates (Green tea consumption, inflammation and the risk of primary hepatocellular carcinoma in a Chinese population - PMC), others have shown no effect (Effect of Coffee and Green Tea Consumption on the Risk of Liver Cancer: Cohort Analysis by Hepatitis Virus Infection Status | Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention | American Association for Cancer Research). If there is one, it’s likely pretty small. There is an repeatable detectable effect of coffee protecting against liver cancer though.
Hope this helps,
Thomas