Vitamins intake - best out of natural source (not synthesized).

[Cristina_Romania]

thedoctorwithin.com/vitamin...

Some interesting information for anybody needing or wishing to take vitamins supplements. Q few very pertinent points made here, fyi.

[Pandemonium]

What about medicines like Ursodeoxycolic acid, a synthetic, man-made bile replacement? Are we wasting our time with this?

[Hidden in reply to Pandemonium]

I think it is fair to say that from when we are born we are all taking in artificial and synthetic chemicals into our systems. No sooner is a baby born than it is being pumped with Vitamin K, the first vitamin that has been manufactured if that baby is being breast-fed.

The arguments on here can go on and on but it is a well-established fact that in the later part of the 20th century and now the 21st majority of the food that we buy is processed thus taking away a lot of essential nutrients.

I personally try to get by without things like vitamin supplements and will hold on as long as I possibly can do so.

I have been taking milk thistle on/off since around April last year to see if it made any difference to the blood results as I had bounced a bit up and down since starting urso Dec 2010. One reason I never wanted to take urso was because I knew it wasn't just something that was a quick fix but something that is intended for the purpose of life once one is established using it and the appropriate results are being seen as better than prior to starting urso.

I think at the end of the day if I can live the remainder of my life pretty stable with this PBC despite the night-time itch and having to take urso without any other medical interventions then for me that would actually suffice.

[Cristina_Romania]

Nobody on this public forum can or is entitled to offer medical advice (from us the patients or volunteers that is) . Urso is The leading drug approved for PBC worldwide, so nobody except your doctor can assess any change regarding one's treatment with Urso or any other PBC drug.

That aside, vitamins (which we take in every single day, in various amounts, through our food) and drugs (which are not part of people's normal, vital diet, but are administered for certain conditions, when doctors consider as appropriate - are two different and barely comparable subjects. We cannot live without food, and food can help, or make worse, any condition in the world (mutatis mutandis).