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In the Scheunengut guide, we explain vitamins, minerals, plant compounds and dietary supplements clearly and with a solid scientific grounding – from correct intake to the right product for you. Use the search or the topic filters to quickly find what you need.
Gut & Liver: The Reset Duo in Focus
Gut and liver work together behind the scenes all the time: one digests and absorbs nutrients, the other processes and filters them further. Even so, most people treat the two...
Liver Values: ALT, AST & GGT Explained Simply
ALT, AST and GGT flagged on your lab report, with an arrow pointing up — and suddenly that print-out from your GP reads like a diagnosis. Few lab values cause...
Liver Detox: What Your Body Already Does On Its Own
Your liver is detoxifying right now, while you're reading this. Not after a cure, not after three days of juice fasting – but this very moment, the same way it...
Bitter Herbs: Side Effects and Safe Use
If you’re searching for “bitter herbs side effects,” you want an honest answer, not a reassuring platitude. Here it is: dandelion, artichoke, milk thistle, and andrographis are among the best-tolerated...
Choline Dosage: How Much You Really Need
Choline barely makes it onto anyone’s nutrient checklist – yet you need more of it every day than most vitamins. The number everything revolves around is 400 milligrams for adults....
Bitter Compounds: How to Kickstart Your Digestion
You know the feeling after a meal: heavy, sluggish, bloated. This is exactly where bitter compounds come in — a group of plant substances that get your digestive tract moving...
Dandelion Root: How to Recognize Good Quality
Dandelion root comes as tea, powder, tincture, roasted coffee substitute, or capsules – and the differences between these products are bigger than they look at first glance. A label that...
Buying Choline: What Matters for Form, Dosage & Purity
Choline rarely gets top billing on a supplement label, yet it plays a role in your liver, your cells, and your metabolism all at once. Start shopping for it and...
Milk Thistle from Scheunengut: the Plant in Our Liver Complex with Choline
With its violet flowers and strikingly white-marbled leaves, milk thistle is one of the best-known plants of monastic medicine. Botanically, it is known as Silybum marianum, belongs to the daisy...
Liver Complex in Focus: Choline, Milk Thistle & Artichoke from Scheunengut
When it comes to plants for the liver, many people first think of classics like turmeric or milk thistle. Our Liver Complex goes a step further, combining plant extracts with...
Our Artichoke Extract in Focus: 3 Products
The artichoke is far more than a gourmet vegetable. As a traditional bitter plant, it is one of the classic ingredients in herbal knowledge, and its characteristic bitter compound cynarin...
The Liver Set: A Combination for Normal Liver Function
The liver is one of the central metabolic organs in our body and works around the clock without us noticing. It processes almost everything we eat and drink, converts nutrients,...
The Cleanse Set: Liver Complexes, Herbs and Microalgae
Around the turn of the year, or after weeks of indulgence, many people feel the urge for a conscious fresh start. A Cleanse Set picks up on this impulse and...
Spring Cleanse: Nutrients & Plants for a Fresh Start
When the days grow longer and the first rays of sun beckon, the wish for a fresh start grows in many people. After the dark, often heavier winter months, the...
Nutrients for Good New Year's Resolutions: The Sensible Reset
The turn of the year is, for many people, the moment to reorganise habits: more exercise, more conscious eating, better sleep, less stress. Good resolutions rarely fail because of goodwill,...
Best Supplements for the Liver: Our Recommendations
The liver is your body's central metabolic organ – it is in continuous use every day when it comes to digestion, nutrient utilisation and fat metabolism. Hardly any other organ...
Hangover After Alcohol: What Really Helps and What Is Just a Myth
A hangover is the unpleasant state on the day after drinking alcohol: headache, tiredness, thirst, nausea, dizziness, sensitivity to light, inner restlessness and irritability are among the typical signs. It...
Fatty Liver: What Really Helps in Everyday Life
The liver is a quiet, hard-working organ that takes on countless metabolic tasks every day. It converts nutrients, stores energy, detoxifies the body and produces important proteins. A fatty liver...
Nutrients for the Liver: Choline, Milk Thistle and More
The liver is your body's quiet powerhouse: it processes nutrients, converts metabolic products and steers countless processes in the background, without you ever noticing. No wonder a whole range of...
Choline: Function, Liver, and Intake
Choline is one of the most commonly underestimated nutrients out there: essential for the liver, cell membranes, and the nervous system, yet rarely on anyone's radar. The body can produce...
The Gut-Liver-Thyroid Axis: The Concept Explained Simply
Anyone who looks into holistic nutrition sooner or later comes across terms like "gut-brain axis" or, indeed, the "gut-liver-thyroid axis". Such phrases sound technical, but at their core they mean...
Choline: Effects, Requirements & Sources
A single egg yolk gives you more choline than many an expensive supplement cocktail – and yet hardly anyone has this nutrient on their radar. Choline is one of the...
Supporting the Liver Naturally: Choline, Milk Thistle & Artichoke
Supporting the liver naturally: choline contributes to the maintenance of normal liver function, alongside traditional herbs like milk thistle and artichoke as well as lifestyle tips.
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