Quote Originally Posted by Gorlax
idk if anyone is getting where im at here
I think many of us are getting where you're at but you aren't getting where we are at. Just because something claims to be a good antioxidant or healthy for you doesn't mean crap. You have to show a statistically significant link between the two. That's like saying well I stopped and at a healthy sub from Subway with Jared the day of my test instead of Mickie D's so that's why I pasted my test.

Quote Originally Posted by Gorlax
but no matter what eating healthy increases your metabolism and that would help you in metabolizing thc.
Tell me, if my caloric intake to maintain my weight was 3500 calories per day and I ate 3500 calories from nothing but raw fruits and vegetables, that would speed up my metabolism and I would start to loose weight? I don't think so. There is so much more to diet than just eating healthy. Not that eating healthy is bad but again where is the statistical evidence. Look at it this way. Ever hear of the Adkin's diet. All protein, all fat, no carbs (actually under 20 grams of carbs per day in the induction phase). So I could eat bacon, eggs, hamhocks, sausage, big fatty burger patties, cheese, chicken wings without breading, fried chicken without breading, butter by the slab shrimp (which have no fat but loaded with cholesterol), and you would loose weight. Is that really though healthy eating? Look at the cholesterol intake in that diet. Not healthy at all (you have to take a multivitamin to get some of your vitamins or else you feel like ass BTW) but it does burn fat if you enter ketoacidosis. So I could eat like a big lard ass and actually loose weight and maybe decrease THC half life in the body. So that's pretty much the opposite of eating healthy.

Quote Originally Posted by Gorlax
I also was looking up some of the information you got and found this right below it. "Metabolism mainly occurs in the liver by cytochrome P450 enzymes CYP2C9, CYP2C19, and CYP3A4."(wikipedia). So milk thistle is a good idea since it has been studied to promote a stronger liver.
That's not where I got the metabolism of THC, I got it from Facts and Comparison, a textbook for pharmacists and physicians that is 1000 times better than a PDR. I would say Wiki got the info from the textbook I used. Either Facts and Comparisons or Remington's. I didn't look at the source ( I looked back, here is where they got it, I got mine from F & C: Huestis MA (2005). "Pharmacokinetics and metabolism of the plant cannabinoids, Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol, cannabidiol and cannabinol". Handb Exp Pharmacol (168): 657â??90. PMID 16596792.  ) . Again though we are at the same dead end in the road. You have to show that milk thistle does indeed have a positive influence on liver function and specifically the metabolic pathway that is involved with hydroxylation of THC. You know how niacin is the big myth of THC drug testing. Do you know how it was started? L Ron Hubbard, the father of the cult of scientology. He had no medical training whatsoever. He believed that 21 days of vitamins high in niacin could help detox the body. Because niacin is involved in fat metabolism people kind of believed this. Time release niacin can even be beneficial in certain lipid disorders in the bloodstream (I think it is high triglycerides, Dave Byrd would know). This all helped perpetuate the myth. More doesn't always mean better. You need niacin for proper metabolism but more doesn't mean better or else niacin would be flying off the shelves with the weight problem this country has. There is no solid evidence that milk thistle works much less improve THC elimination. Since it is about $4 for a bottle of 100, I said it isn't that bad as it is cheap and can't hurt. You are however chasing fool's gold if you think it is going to make a significant impact on THC metabolism. If it was that powerful in aiding the liver, do you think it would be over the counter?

A lot of people have come up with you hypothesis before but it has never been proven. Solid work but there is more that needs to be done to prove this.