Comparison

The daily recommended dosage for Maximum Milk Thistle® contains 240 mg of silybin, the most beneficial active ingredient in milk thistle. The chart below will show how many capsules of each competitor’s product is needed to equal the 240 mg of silybin contained in just 3 capsules of Maximum Milk Thistle®, taken daily. It will clearly demonstrate how potent, convenient and cost effective Maximum Milk Thistle® is as compared to its competitors. Keep in mind that UltraThistle® contains even more silybin - 360 mg - so you would need even more of the competitors product to equal the strength of UltraThistle®.

Facts to Remember:

1. Milk thistle extract (silymarin) is made up of both active and inactive ingredients in varying amounts, with the active ingredients providing all of the supplement's benefits and therapeutic value. When purchasing a standardized milk thistle extract, you know exactly how much of the active ingredients you are receiving in every tablet or capsule. When purchasing a non-standardized milk thistle product, you have no way of knowing what proportion of active to inactive ingredients will be present in the final product. Even thought it might seem like a great value to purchase ninety, 1,000 mg capsules of milk thistle extract for only $9.00, you don't know how much of the active ingredient, if any, you are receiving. You could be throwing your money away. 
   
   
2. Maximum Milk Thistle® provides a patented, highly-absorbable, standardized form of milk thistle that delivers up to 10 times more of milk thistle’s most beneficial active ingredient, silybin, to your liver.
   
   
3. Maximum Milk Thistle® also contains over 2x the amount of silybin than in standardized milk thistle, providing superior benefits: up to 10x the absorption and over 2x the amount of silybin means up to 20x the effectiveness.†
   
   
4. For your body to absorb the same amount of silybin in Maximum Milk Thistle®, you would have to consume more than 20 times the amount of silybin found in standardized forms of milk thistle and even more than that to equal what is provided through UltraThistle®. †

* Based upon 2012 regular pricing from representative product sites on the Internet.
† Comparison based on 240 mg of silybin in Maximum Milk Thistle® vs. 240 mg of milk thistle standardized to 80% silymarin.

Chart Notes:

1. Standardized to 80% silymarin — The active ingredients of milk thistle (known collectively as silymarin) make up 80% of the total milligrams of the standardized milk thistle product. Therefore, if you purchased a 240 mg milk thistle product standardized to 80% silymarin, you would actually only have 192 mg of the active ingredients (240 mg x .80% = 192 mg).


2. Silymarin contains only 50% silybin, the most beneficial of the active ingredients and responsible for the majority of milk thistle's liver-protective qualities. To continue the example above, a standardized milk thistle product containing 192 mg of silymarin only contains 96 mg of silybin (192 mg x .50% = 96 mg). So out of the original 240 mg of standardized milk thistle that we started with above, only 96 mg are silybin. Maximum Milk Thistle® has a daily dosage of 240 mg of silybin. Therefore, Maximum Milk Thistle® contains over 2x the amount of silybin found in an equivalent amount of a standardized milk thistle product.