Lifestyle changes, nutrition, and supplements for hep b

[ThomasTu]

Welcome to the forum @anathans, glad you found us here and thanks for your contributions. I wanted to highlight about the point regarding turmeric. As mentioned in previous posts, there is no evidence that dietary turmeric provides any clinical benefit for hepatitis B:

Lifestyle changes, nutrition, and supplements for hep b

Hi Johnny, I haven’t seen any evidence so far showing turmeric (at least in the doses you would be getting from eating it) having any significant effects on Hep B. In fact, there have been a couple of cases where turmeric supplements have damaged the liver and induced ALT flares (reported here and here). Regarding the choline, it is true that a choline-deficient diet will damage the liver. But once you have enough, it’s not clear that eating more is better for your liver. I haven’t seen any t…

Acorbine as a supplement?

Dear @EH1999 I just had a quick look at this paper and this is a completely test-tube/cell-culture based experiment. Just as mentioned in the previous thread about HBV and foods such as turmeric/curcurmin (Lifestyle changes, nutrition, and supplements for hep b - #16 by ThomasTu), there’s a big big gap between showing something sort of works in a cell-culture experiment to eating something being beneficial. I think it’s important to note that, for the most part, food is not medicine. Yes, heal…

And indeed the Australian TGA (the FDA equivalent) has just recommended that people should not take turmeric supplements due to the risk of liver injury: https://www.tga.gov.au/news/safety-alerts/medicines-containing-turmeric-or-curcumin-risk-liver-injury

@Opa

How have you managed to control body itching, feeling like vomiting and excessive abdominal pain at the right hand side abdomen? This worries me mostly when one health specialist said i have limited years to survive given these symptoms.

Hi @Opa, I think it is worthwhile to go to your doctor about this, but also recognise there may be other causes for this (as described in this thread: Upper right quadrant pain)

Hope this helps,
Thomas