Freedom Functional Medicine - Milk Thistle

Nanoemulsified Milk Thistle is a highly bioavailable form of milk thistle, a treasured botanical in the Western herbal pharmacopeia with a long history of use for supporting healthy liver function. By offering gentle yet powerful support to the liver, antioxidant system, and immune system, it serves as a powerful plant ally in our modern toxin-laden world.

Milk thistle – Milk thistle is an herbaceous plant with a distinctive prickly flower head and purple tubular flowers. It promotes the excretion of bile salts, aiding healthy bile flow, detoxification, and digestion. Silymarin, a principal constituent of milk thistle, protects liver cells from environmental toxins and increases the production of the body’s master antioxidant, glutathione, by upregulating the Nrf2 pathway.

Silymarin also exerts antifibrotic effects by inhibiting NF-κB signaling, preventing the accumulation of extracellular matrix proteins in the liver in response to chronic inflammatory assaults. Emerging research indicates that silymarin also modulates the immune system, targeting harmful microbes while inhibiting unproductive inflammation.

Uptake and absorption of silymarin and other milk thistle constituents is limited in the gut. Liposomal delivery systems have been found to enhance silymarin bioavailability. Our formula delivers milk thistle extract in small, stable liposomes, offering rapid absorption and unparalleled support for liver health, detoxification, and a healthy inflammatory balance.