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High Liver Enzymes Treatment

2011
10.29

I’ve found a liver diet guide written by a veteran nurse. It’s aimed mainly at fatty liver disease sufferers but you could greatly benefit from it if you have high liver enzymes. To find out more, click here.

One of the most common reasons for having high liver enzymes is having a fatty liver. In fact, according to research, over 30 millions Americans have nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, that’s 1 in 10!

This liver desease, if left alone, can easily lead to liver cancer, and you don’t have to be an alcoholic.

Now this site is dedicated to giving information about high liver enzymes, not fatty liver disease, we get it. But seriously, it’s still the liver, it’s all connected.

If you’re overweight and have elevated liver enzymes, chances are a fatty liver is the reason why those levels are high.

There are many reasons why liver enzymes become elevated and some of them don’t even have anything to do with the liver. Only a doctor can tell you for sure what the cause of it is after a few tests.

The bottom line is this: your liver is not healthy.

The liver filters fat and sugar from the bloodstream. If your liver isn’t doing so well, you’re probably eating too much fat or too much sugar or both.

It was written by registered nurse (RN) Dorothy Spencer and it’s called the Liver Diet Guide. For more information, click here.

 


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How to treat Elevated Liver Enzymes: Milk Thistle?

2012
03.23

(If you don’t feel like reading and want the solution right now, click here.)

I’ve heard your concerns! Over the last few months, since the post suggesting the Fatty Liver Diet, I’ve been getting a lot of frustrated people commenting and saying they just can’t find a treatment that is specific to their problem: elevated liver enzymes.

First of all, I want to thank everyone for the feedback. I haven’t been approving comments but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been reading them.

At first I didn’t understand the reactions. My thinking was simply this: “high liver enzymes are a symptom of an unhealthy liver. Focus on taking care of your overall liver health, and the liver enzymes will take care of themselves.”

Obviously that didn’t cut it for you guys! :)

So I decided to go back and look for an elevated liver enzyme specific treatment. I now understand the reactions! I thought about giving up a few times and I did. But it would just sit in the back of my mind and I would try again.

I’m hoping the search is over!

What did I find out? I stumbled upon milk thistle.

Fight High Liver Enzymes with Milk Thistle!

Those of you who have been searching for some time may think “milk thistle? I’ve looked into that and it’s still not a specific treatment!”. Please hear me out.

I’d come across milk thistle before and just dismissed it on the basis that, you know, not specific… Just another liver detox type thing.

That was until I came across a study published on the American Cancer Society website. (If you want to read the entire study, just click here.)

Apparently, a common side effect of chemotherapy is liver inflammation which causes liver enzyme levels to go up.

Here’s the part that got me:

“Fifty children with ALL were enrolled in the study and were randomized to receive milk thistle or placebo for 28 days. At the start of the study, all of the children had evidence of liver inflammation as measured by elevations in blood levels of the liver enzymes, aspartate amino transferase (AST) and amino alanine transferase (ALT). When the investigators performed liver function tests on the children at day 56 (28 days after receiving the herb or placebo), children receiving milk thistle had improvements in their liver enzymes compared with children receiving a placebo. Specifically, the group that took milk thistle had significantly lower levels of AST and a trend towards significantly lower levels of ALT.”

Now if that’s not specific, I don’t know what is.

If you’re thinking you want to give milk thistle a shot, the cheapest place seems to be amazon.

Here’s what one of the reviews says:

“My liver enzymes were 3-4 times normal, on two separate readings. I started taking 2 capsules, twice a day and within 3 months, my liver enzymes were normal.”

To check it out, click here.

 

 

 

 

 

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Les Mills PUMP Is Group Class Fitness In A Box

2012
03.10

Never heard of Les Mills Body PUMP before? Just walk into almost any gym or fitness center and you’re basically guaranteed to hear about this class style one of a kind fitness program. That’s why the Les Mills PUMP workout by Beachbody is such a revolutionary program. It’s the first in home workout that takes group class styled fitness and brings it right to your very own living room.

What Les Mills PUMP Is All About

Les Mills BodyPump found in gyms is a group class program that utilizes light barbell weight with high intensity cardio style fitness moves. The idea of the program is to give you a light level of resistance combined with lots of reps. It’s a head to toe program that leaves no area of your body left out. The program put together by Beachbody LLC and Les Mills International follows this same pattern. When you order the program you get seven DVD’s along with a state of the art barbell and two sets of weights (5 & 10 pounds) along with a nutrition guide and fitness calendar.

The workouts are all completely different, with some focusing on particular areas of the body like your abs and core while others are entirely cardio using high levels of reps, while still yet some of the other DVD’s combine resistance training with some cardio giving more of a total body workout feel. With the base kit PUMP program you have more than enough to put together a workout routine that will keep you going for an indefinitely lasting period of time.

The PUMP Equipment

Les Mills PUMP wouldn’t be based on BodyPump without the right type of fitness equipment. Without this one important factor you would simply have some really good DVD’s that wouldn’t live up to their full potential. In the base kit of the program you get a barbell that comes in two parts. It easily slides together and has several settings for longer or shorter lengths if you need it. In addition you have two sets of plates for the barbell and two sets of collars to hold them in place. In the deluxe version of PUMP you get two extra sets of plates along with a step up riser that adds extra resistance to lower body exercises you do.

The Les Mills PUMP workout by Beachbody is the only program available today that combines the fun and intense atmosphere of BodyPump classes with the convenience and privacy of an in home workout. The reviews are in and after just a few short months on the market, this program is quickly becoming one of the year’s best selling hottest workout programs you can get your hands on.

 

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High Liver Enzymes Symptoms

2011
10.01


High liver enzymes are usually discovered during routine blood tests and can indicate liver damage or liver disease although not always. When elevated liver enzymes are found, doctors will require more testing to find out exactly what the problem is. You may experience many high liver enzymes symptoms, including:

  • Tiredness, fatigue, lowered energy making it hard to accomplish your normal activities.
  • Unusual and almost chronic itchiness
  • Stool may be lighter colored or reddish
  • You could start feeling bloated or your legs, feet and ankles may start to swell.
  • Jaundice could appear. Yellowing of the eyes, skin, and mucus membranes. Jaundice may or may not be accompanied by pain, mostly abdominal.
  • You may notice your blood is thinner (more liquid) than normal

If you notice any of these high liver enzymes symptoms please call a doctor. If you’ve already seen one and know you have high liver enzymes, these are the most common symptoms you can expect. Do not try to guess if you have a medical condition. A diagnosis should be done by a doctor only. High liver enzymes symptoms can’t tell you what the underlying condition is. They are many possible causes for high liver enzymes so you should see a medical professional qualified to treat the causes and not just the symptoms.

 

 

 

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What Does High Liver Enzymes Mean?

2011
09.19


Enzymes are proteins that catalyze chemical reations. Liver enzymes speed up these reactions in the liver. A liver function test is used to measure the liver enzyme levels in the bloodstream. When talking about high liver enzymes, there are a few that are the most common. They are alanine transaminase or ALT, aspartate transaminase or AST, alkaline phosphatase or ALP and gamma-glutamyl transferase or GGT. Any of these elevated liver enzymes could mean the presence of liver disease or liver damage such as inflammation as this means these liver enzymes are leaking out of the liver and into the blood.

Alinine Transminase (ALT)

Also called serum glutamic pyruvic transaminase (SGPT) or alanine aminotransferase (ALAT). It is found in serum and in different tissues in the body but mostly in the liver and is measured when evaluating liver cell damage. The normal range is between 5-60U/L (international units/liter).

Elevated levels of ALT could potentially mean there are other medical issues like myopathy, diabetes, heart problems, hepatitis or even infectious mononucleosis. This is determined by measuring the presence of other enzymes.

Aspartate Transaminase (AST)

Also called serum glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase  (SGOT) or aspartate aminotransferase. This enzyme is found in the liver, the heart, the kidneys, the brain, the skeletal muscle and red blood cells. As a result it is not as specific a marker for the liver as ALT which is more precise in indicating liver damage. Normal levels are between 5-40U/L.

High levels of AST have been shown to indicate chronic alcoholism which damages the liver.

Alkaline Phosphatase (ALP)

Alkaline phosphatase in found in the entire body but at higher levels in the liver, kidney, placenta, bone and bile duct. Normal levels are 20-140U/L.

Elevated levels of alkaline phosphatase can mean the bile duct is blocked or even that there is bone formation actively going on.

Gamma-Glutamyl Transferase (GGT)

GGT is similar to AST in the sense that it isn’t as specific to the liver as ALT and high levels will appear with the abuse of alcohol and alcoholic liver damage.

It is also similar to ALP because it is an indicator of biliary system damage.

Normal levels are around 45U/L for women and around 75U/L for men.

 

As you can see, having high liver enzymes can mean a number of different things, not just liver disease or liver damage.

 

 

 

 

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Welcome to High Liver Enzymes dot org

2011
09.15

This blog features information about high liver enzymes

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