7 Reasons Why Men Who Quit Drinking Still Get Bad News at Their Retest
(Besides Finally Getting A Retest Letter That Says “Normal”)
Stopped drinking, cut the takeaways, started walking, and the bloods still came back “slightly raised”? None of that means you failed. Whether your retest is weeks away or you’ve just had the bad news, here’s why doing everything right wasn’t enough, and what is.
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twelve weeks of waiting, and nobody tells you what to do
The Problem: The GP rang. ALT raised, GGT raised, “slightly fatty liver” on the scan. Cut out the drink, lose a stone, retest in three months. No plan, no follow-up, no phone appointment for weeks. Just a date on the calendar and an ache under your ribs you keep pressing at.
The Truth: So you did it all. Lime and soda at the pub. Salad at lunch. Ten thousand steps. Maybe a tub of milk thistle from Holland & Barrett. And the numbers barely moved. That doesn’t mean you failed. It means something was missing.
stopping takes the load off. it doesn’t do the repair
The Problem: Think of a van you’ve overloaded for years. Taking the weight out stops things getting worse. It doesn’t fix the suspension. Your liver has decades of pints behind it, and three months is a short time to catch up.
The Fix: Taking the load off was step one. Step two is giving your liver daily support while it does the work, instead of waiting and hoping the retest goes your way.
the pints were never the only thing your liver was dealing with
The Problem: Early starts, sausage rolls on site, curry on a Sunday, ibuprofen for the knee, the weight round your middle. Your liver handles all of it, every single day, not just the beer. Cut one load and leave the rest, and the numbers stay stubborn.
The Fix: You don’t have to overhaul your whole life. You need something that works every day alongside the changes you’ve already made. Most men reach for milk thistle at this point. The problem is what’s actually in the tub.
that holland & barrett tub was probably half a dose
The Maths: Silymarin is the active part of milk thistle. A typical one-a-day capsule holds 300 mg of extract at 80%, which is 240 mg of silymarin a day. Plenty of tubs don’t even print the percentage.
The Truth: The full dose is 480 mg a day, twice that. “I tried milk thistle, it did nothing” usually means it was never enough to find out. Before you write it off, check yours.
turn your tub over and do the sum
The Test: “10,000mg” on the front tells you nothing. Look on the back for two numbers: the milligrams of extract and the “% silymarin”. Multiply them.
The Answer: No percentage at all? Then you never knew what you were taking. Under 480 a day? That’s a big part of your answer. It wasn’t you, and it wasn’t the plant. It was the amount.
twelve weeks of doing it right deserves the full dose
The Problem: After a bad retest, most men either give up on supplements altogether or buy another tub with a bigger number on the front. Neither fixes the dose.
What Veyola Does: Two capsules hold 600 mg of milk thistle extract standardised to 80%, so 480 mg of silymarin a day, plus pueraria, turmeric and five more supporting ingredients, each printed with its dose on the pouch. Two capsules with your morning brew. Nothing else to change.
Your Tub vs The Full Dose
Same plant. Different amount.
480mg
Silymarin a day in 2 Veyola capsules: 600 mg extract × 80%
240mg
What a typical one-a-day 80% capsule gives you
80%
Standardisation, printed on the pouch
0
Hidden amounts. Every dose is on the label
you’re not the only one googling this at midnight
What People Say: On UK liver forums, it’s the same story over and over. “Doctor didn’t explain clearly what this meant or how bad it was, only that I have to return on three months to give another blood test.” And: “May quit drinking altogether ! Proper scared me!”
The Verdict: Don’t spend the wait googling. One pouch on its own is too short to judge, so Buy 2, Get 1 Free gives you the full dose for long enough. Then let your next bloods be the verdict. Take it every day for 30 days, and if it wasn’t worth it, you get your money back.
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We had done everything right for nine years and the number still would not behave. I found Veyola after reading about silymarin, 480 mg a day, above what the trials used. He still takes exactly what his GP prescribes, but at the eight-week review the letter finally said down. I sat at the kitchen table and cried.
I have tried a few milk thistle capsules and none of them told me how much silymarin was inside. This one prints the lot, 600 mg of extract at 80%, so 480 mg a day. Two months in, my legs do not ache in the mornings and my retest was the first good news in years.
Every annual review it was "still a little high". I was doing all of it, every single day. The only change I made was two capsules of Veyola with breakfast. After three weeks I noticed the fog lifting, and the next letter from the surgery was the first one that did not say keep an eye on it.
Ordered after reading the panel. Every active listed with its amount, third-party tested every batch here in the UK. I did not change my diet or my tablets. Twelve weeks later my review came back better than it has been since my sixties started.