Interesting list of things causing liver injury to the woman in question. I’ve literally taken all of those things. Turmeric, ashwaganda and horsetail are daily supplements for me. (These days I call “daily” 5 times weekly with rest days on Wednesdays and Sundays. But for the first 25 years of so of supplementation, it was literally 7 days a week.)
Though I’ve taken kelp in the past, these days I get iodine via Lugol’s solution–seven days a week on that one. All of these things go back decades for me. I’m 68 but have been heavily into supplementation since my early 20s. Resveratrol was more recent, of course, since it wasn’t around back then, though that’s been more like only twice weekly intake and some periods of not taking it at all.
Also calcium was mentioned in a prior post above as another no-no. I take that daily as well, though with magnesium, silica, K2, etc. This dosing goes back decades, too.
My liver enzymes are usually much like my last blood test from four months ago. AST - 19, ALT - 21, GGT - 14. All super low. I do take liver-healthy milk thistle supplement and take trimethylglycine which should help with liver methylation, so those might help account for my apparently very healthy liver. But I also think the supplements in question are not all that problematic for most people.
I had a calcium scoring exam about a year ago. My doctor took one look at that and said, “Well, maybe in a hundred years or so you might have a minor concern with calcium build up.”
I also take 300 mcg of melatonin nightly, which was also mentioned in other posts above as a potentially problematic supplement. I’ve never had any issues with it. That dosing goes back about 25 years.
So I wouldn’t take one person’s bad outcome, like that of the Nutrafol consumer noted above, and put too much stock in it. If a bunch of people had the same result, that’s another story, of course. But plenty of people, like myself, have no such issue with the supplements mentioned, even with long term daily or near daily usage.
