For the people who don’t drink, and got the diagnosis anyway.
A genuinely high, fully-disclosed 480mg of silymarin a day to support liver function, made for people who don’t drink, with a simple routine to track your own NHS bloods over time.
2 bottles · 90 days — spans a typical NHS re-test.
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Included free — arrives with your order
Your Numbers, Decoded. Read your own NHS liver blood test in plain English: what ALT, AST, GGT and ALP actually mean, how to tell a real change from everyday noise, and how to ask your GP for the right re-test. Comes with a simple sheet to track your results over time.
Prefer Subscribe & Save 20%? Skip or cancel in one click, anytime. No phone calls, no hoops, and we never hold your card hostage.
Included free — arrives with your order
Your Numbers, Decoded. Read your own NHS liver blood test in plain English: what ALT, AST, GGT and ALP actually mean, how to tell a real change from everyday noise, and how to ask your GP for the right re-test. Comes with a simple sheet to track your results over time.
Eat Without Fear. The calm, nothing-off-limits food plan: the few things that genuinely matter for your liver, what you can stop worrying about, easy swaps, and a day on a plate you can copy. Permission to stop policing every bite.
Prefer Subscribe & Save 20%? Skip or cancel in one click, anytime. No phone calls, no hoops, and we never hold your card hostage.
Included free — arrives with your order
Your Numbers, Decoded. Read your own NHS liver blood test in plain English: what ALT, AST, GGT and ALP actually mean, how to tell a real change from everyday noise, and how to ask your GP for the right re-test. Comes with a simple sheet to track your results over time.
Eat Without Fear. The calm, nothing-off-limits food plan: the few things that genuinely matter for your liver, what you can stop worrying about, easy swaps, and a day on a plate you can copy. Permission to stop policing every bite.
The Calm Plan: Your First 90 Days. A simple, week-by-week plan for the months after diagnosis: what to do first, what can wait, when to book your re-test, what’s normal, and when to actually call your GP. With something to reach for on the 3am nights.
Water bottle. Two capsules, with food, with water. That’s the whole routine. Ships with your first delivery.
Prefer Subscribe & Save 20%? Skip or cancel in one click, anytime. No phone calls, no hoops, and we never hold your card hostage. On the 3-pack, the water bottle ships with your first delivery.
Right for you if
Not for you if you’re after a detox, a miracle, or a way around the food-and-movement work.
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| Milk thistle extract (80% silymarin) | 600 mg · 480 mg silymarin |
| Inositol | 400 mg |
| Pueraria extract (10% puerarin) | 136 mg |
| Vitamin C | 20 mg |
| L-methionine | 20 mg |
| Turmeric extract (95% curcuminoids) | 8 mg |
Also contains standard excipients, disclosed in full: vegetable capsule (HPMC, carrageenan, glycerin, colour), magnesium stearate, maltodextrin, silicon dioxide. We’d rather tell you than pretend they’re not there.
From people who don’t drink, got the same diagnosis out of nowhere, and didn’t want to spend the next year guessing.
I’ve never been a drinker and I walk most days, so being told I had a fatty liver was a real shock. So much of what you read, and half these products, are clearly meant for people who’ve spent years on the booze, which just isn’t me. This was the first one where I didn’t feel quietly judged for something I haven’t done. Been taking it about six weeks now.
Doctor pretty much said lose a bit of weight and come back in a year, no scan, no nothing, and I’m not even overweight so that was a fun chat. Anyway, I take two with breakfast and I’ve booked my own retest for September. Can’t honestly tell you it’s doing anything yet because apparently you don’t feel this stuff, but I’d rather be getting on with something than just sat waiting. The inositol in it was a bonus for me with the PCOS as well.
I’d written milk thistle off years ago, the one I’d had before was a tiny dose and did nothing as far as I could tell. Bought this one mainly because the dose was a proper one and it was all there on the label, no mystery. Wasn’t holding my breath, but my ALT was 78 and at my last bloods it had come down to 54. I’ve been cutting the sugar right back as well so it’s not all down to the capsules, but I’m not stopping them now.
Diagnosed a couple of years ago, don’t drink, and I’ve been chipping away at it with diet and a lot of walking ever since. Added these in around six months back and my last set of results came back the best they’ve been, so something between the lot of it is doing the job. Only reason it’s four stars and not five is the capsules are on the big side, which I know is a daft thing to dock a star for, but there we are.
He worked in pharmaceuticals for thirty odd years and he reads every label like he’s marking homework. He went through this one and didn’t have his usual list of complaints, which more or less never happens. Everything’s actually printed on the back, fillers and all. If he’s satisfied then so am I.
Got diagnosed out of nowhere on a routine blood test, don’t drink, and spent the first few weeks reading the same scary forums over and over at 2am. Having an actual routine and a date in for the next test has done more for my head than any of that did, weirdly. No idea if it’s working yet, but at least I feel like I’m doing something instead of just stewing.
Blood-test tracking mentioned in reviews is each customer’s own NHS routine, not a product claim. Food supplements support normal liver function; they do not treat or prevent any condition.
Every dose printed in plain milligrams, including the excipients most labels gloss over and an honest word on how it absorbs, so you can see exactly what you are taking before you buy.
600 mg · 480 mg silymarin
The seed extract the whole formula is built around. Its active, silymarin, is the compound studied in liver-support trials. As an antioxidant, it helps shield your liver cells from the everyday wear your own metabolism creates, and it works best taken with food.
400 mg
A sugar-like compound your body already makes for itself. It plays a part in how you process sugar and fat, which is the metabolic side of what drives fatty liver.
136 mg · 10% puerarin
Kudzu root, standardised so every dose carries a measured amount of its active, puerarin, rather than vague root powder. It adds more of that same cell protection, plus a little metabolic support, beneath the milk thistle.
20 mg
The everyday vitamin you already know, kept deliberately small at 20mg. Its job here is that same kind of cell protection, the familiar one your body draws on every day.
20 mg
Not an antioxidant itself, but the building block your body uses to make glutathione, the antioxidant it produces for its own liver. It is also what sets this apart from the usual white-label bottles.
8 mg · 95% curcuminoids
Turmeric root, concentrated to 95% curcuminoids so the small 8mg is nearly pure active. It is the familiar golden antioxidant, kept small and shown at its honest dose rather than puffed up.
Every active in exact milligrams. Nothing folded into a “proprietary blend”.
| Milk thistle extractstandardised to 80% silymarin | 480 mg silymarinfrom 600 mg extract |
| Inositol | 400 mg |
| Pueraria extractstandardised to 10% puerarin | 136 mg |
| Vitamin C | 20 mg |
| L-methionine | 20 mg |
| Turmeric extract95% curcuminoids | 8 mg |
Also contains, in full: vegetable capsule (HPMC, carrageenan, glycerin, colour), magnesium stearate, maltodextrin, silicon dioxide: the standard excipients most labels whisper.
Silymarin absorbs poorly on its own, which is true of every milk-thistle product including this one. That is why the honest instruction is simply to take it with food. No proprietary blends, and every excipient named above.
“But I don’t even drink”
Your liver turns excess sugar into fat and stores it inside its own cells. No drink required. This was never about willpower or anything you did wrong. It is simply how your body handles sugar.
Your liver does almost all the work of processing fructose. When more arrives than it can use, it packs the excess away as fat inside its own cells.
Insulin resistance can build quietly for years before a routine blood test ever looks wrong, no matter how careful you’ve been.
What to do with the waiting
Your GP said come back in a year and called it a plan. So here is the truth most supplements will not tell you: you will not feel this working. Fatty liver is silent, so a feeling here would just be a story you told yourself. The only honest scoreboard is one you can read on paper. Your own NHS bloods, read with your GP.
Day 0Pick the honest scoreboard
Weeks 1–6Nothing. And that is honest.
If we sold you a feeling now, we would be lying. A silent condition gives you no daily signal, up or down. Every brand that promises you will feel lighter or cleaner by week two is counting on you not noticing that you cannot feel your liver at all. We would rather just tell you to wait for the test.
Day 45One bottle, no theatre
The bottle runs out at 45 days, about halfway to a typical re-test. There is no glow to chase in the meantime, which is exactly why most people take the two-bottle window and simply let it run to the draw without thinking about it.
The re-testProof you can hold
Now, finally, something real to read. Not a feeling we sold you, but your own NHS result in black and white. You go through it with your GP, you decide what it means, and the not-knowing is over. That is the only kind of proof worth waiting for.
How to use: two capsules a day, with food, from now until the blood test that actually settles it.
Your starting numbers, noted down.
Blank for now. This is the reading you take, and fill in, at your next NHS test.
Not other brands. These are the four things genuinely on your table this week, and what each one really costs you.
A £6 bottle that does nothing is not cheap, it is a wasted year. Spend a little more on a real dose, and you get the year back.
A growing stack costs more every month and still leaves you guessing. This is a single decision instead, and the end of trying to be your own chemist at midnight.
None of this replaces the work you are already doing. It just means you are no longer doing it on willpower alone.
The year passes either way. The only real choice is whether you arrive at your next blood test having done something about it, or having simply run down the clock.
For scale: a single private FibroScan costs around £250, and people pay it gladly just for one clear look at where they stand. The full 90-day pack here is £39.99, and it ends at an NHS blood test you were already due.
These are five of the lines this whole category leans on. Under each one is what we’ll say instead.
✕“Feel the difference in days, not months.”
In the studies, milk thistle was measured over weeks and months, not days. Your liver also gives you almost nothing to feel from one day to the next, so “feel the difference” was never an honest thing to sell. We’d rather tell you to judge it by your next blood test than by your mood.
✕“Flush years of toxins out of your liver.”
There’s no flush, no cleanse and no “toxins” to clear out. That story was written to sell forgiveness to people who feel guilty about drinking, and that isn’t you. Your liver isn’t dirty. It needs steady support, and we won’t pretend it’s something more dramatic than that.
✕“WARNING: 9 silent signs your liver is crying for help.”
You’ve done enough 3am reading already. No scare-lists, no countdown clocks, no “only 3 left in stock”. A page that has to frighten you is usually covering for a product that can’t stand on its own. Staying calm is the entire point of this one.
✕“100% pure. Zero fillers. Nothing artificial.”
Like almost every capsule, ours contains a few standard extras that bind the powder and keep it stable, and we print every one on the label. “Pure” and “no fillers” usually just means those same ordinary ingredients are in there, and nobody listed them.
✕“No diet changes. No exercise. Just two capsules a day.”
Food, movement and time do most of the work, and your GP is right about that. Two capsules a day sit alongside that effort, they don’t replace it. Think of it as backing the work you’re already putting in, not a way around it.
The struck-out lines above are typical claims across the category, not quotes from any single brand.
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