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THICA is a civil society organization created and governed by hepatitis patients in Taiwan. We aim to help the elimination of hepatitis in Taiwan and globally.

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📅 2025/9/29 (一) 晚上 8 -9 點（台灣時間） 👨‍⚕️ 講者：戴嘉言 醫師（高雄醫學大學）

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Excited about our first hepatitis elimination webinar with PRIME education Inc.. Professor Chia-Yen Dai from Kaohsiung Medical University, Taiwan, will be our first speaker on “What You Need to Know about Hepatitis C”.
Register Here: https://t.co/c0UktsgxAq

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Prevention and Treatment of Acute Hepatitis B Infection: Join our live event featuring expert physicians and a patient advocate to discuss the transmission and practical prevention strategies for acute HBV. 12/28 Saturday 8 pm - 9 pm (Taipei Time) Live Stream on Facebook

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Treat or Not to Treat #BTheVoice EP09
Lynette faced a dilemma about whether to start treatment, as her liver test results were normal. Ultimately, she decided to proceed with antiviral treatment. Lynette is grateful to her doctors for their support...
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Listen to "Lynette's Hepatitis B Story 麗慧的B肝故事

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A young medical student has chronic hepatitis B. What she needs to do and her recommendation to others. Watch this #BtheVoice story from Jamie.
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Excited to host another live Community Conversation between patients and physicians, feature hepatitis B patient Jacky Lee, and experts Dr. Amy Tang, and Dr. Chen, Ping-Hsien. Join us tomorrow morning 8am EST https://t.co/wosECcnAdD

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If you missed it, you can watch the recoding on YouTube.

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Did you miss the patient testimonials in HBV clinical trial presented at @AASLDtweets #TLM23? Don’t worry, you can replay on the app or watch it here: https://t.co/JflKEzUWQ5

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We are happy to help moderate AASLD patient-centered sessions on liver cancer, MASLD, and clinical trials. Come join us in person in Boston or online live.

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#BtheVoice #B肝之聲 #TaiwanHepBStory #台灣B肝故事

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Ms. Li was diagnosed of hepatitis B during a school health check-up. She was told that everything was fine, no need for treatment. Unfortunately, a liver tumor was discovered and found to be a malignant cancer... YouTube👉 https://t.co/vovqxFQTPq FB LIVE👉 https://t.co/XRxM8Yj3e5

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Our 2nd #BtheVoice story from Taiwan featuring Mr. Mike Lin who has been living with chronic hepatitis B and liver cancer for decades. Interview language: English. Watch whole video @ https://t.co/8FrY61HCQW

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A pretty young mother with two little children discovered a huge liver tumor while being asymptomatic with CHB for 36 years… watch the whole video @ https://t.co/PjgnJU02Ij

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The inaugural BtheVoice story from Taiwan. Take a moment to watch it, leave a comment and share to support the victim. @HenryEChang @swang8 @GlobalHep @wonglaihung @HsuHolden

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Introducing the inaugural #BtheVoice story from Taiwan. Take a moment to watch this brief video, serving as a poignant reminder of the profound impact the hepatitis B virus can have. Kindly leave a comment and share to support this young woman.
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Sometimes it is too late to prevent viral hepatitis-related HCC. This weekend, Dr. San-Chi Chen from Taipei Veterans General Hospital will speak about the latest advances in immunotherapy plus targeted therapy for advanced HCC. Free registration plus live-stream on FB.

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Listen, green juicing - should you do it, or leave it?

Never mind the video attached, its just for entertainment purposes. The video shows a woman who goes to an [organic] farm and plucks fresh green leafy veggies, adds turmeric, lemon and ginger and makes a "green juice" which is claimed to be tasty and healthy.

But what I would really want to discuss today, is if you really need to "green juiced detox" for wellness. No opinions here, no hearsay, just pure science of it.

Green juicing is a detox practice. But none actually knows what is getting detoxed. An organ? An organ system? The body? No idea.

The whole body is already getting detoxed by liver and kidneys and they do a wonderful job of it. Similar to "who watches the watchmen," line, should you "detox the detoxers?"

For that, one must realize that detox is not a legit medical science word or practice. Detox is a wellness quackery term created to expand business oppurtunities. You have detox powders, detox tablets, detox capsules, detox practices (such as massages, oil pulling through nose, enemas, exposing anus to the Sun called 'sunning,' and so much more) and yes, detox juices.

Detox is there is grab your hard earned money. A green juice or any type of detox for that matter does not help you prevent or treat any disease known to humans. The only thing getting detoxed with a detox is your bank account.

The dubious practice of detox. https://t.co/jk3EZu6Gd3
Products that promise “detox” are a sham. Yes, all of them.
https://t.co/aLyh6ut0mx

Now the green juice thing.
Be careful of what you put in there to blend, because your real detoxers - the liver and kidneys have to work extra to relieve you from the stress of it all. Green leafy veggies blended together is a dangerous thing. Many green veggies are rich in oxalates - like spinach, lettuce, celery and beetroot. Excess of oxalates can harm your kidneys if they get overwhelmed with the work-overload - like in this case where a woman developed kidney failure after green juice cleanse.
"Green Smoothie Cleanse" Causing Acute Oxalate Nephropathy
https://t.co/RnnZPnZI3r

This is not an isolated incident. There are many reports in published medical literature that has reported kidney injury and kidney failure due to green juicing. Here are some of them.

➡️Oxalate nephropathy due to 'juicing': case report and review https://t.co/43f5wAUIco
➡️Acute Oxalate Nephropathy Caused by Excessive Vegetable Juicing and Concomitant Volume Depletion https://t.co/dqUr7Wo8Hm
➡️Acute Kidney Injury in a Patient Engaged in Vegetable Juicing https://t.co/KoalmYzgeP

And that is not all - sometimes, fresh green juicing, especially directly from the farm (like what the lady in the video does) can transmit really weird parasites
- like that was seen in Korea. Many people developed an infestation from flatworms that affected their livers due to green juicing.
See here: Green vegetable juice as a potential source of human fascioliasis in Korea
https://t.co/G4lWzd9Mf9

But lets come to the real stuff.
Does green juicing do anything beneficial at all, to human metabolism and hence wellness?
A randomized controlled study (which is a very good design methodology to identify effectivenss of an intervention) showed that green juicing was an absolute waste of everyones time. The authors stated that "Together with an analysis of previous works, we suggest that green juice did not cause an improvement in metabolic function and there is a need for further research on this issue."
https://t.co/mZ5DhMXJDM
Bummer!

If you are going to do a Green juice to "detox" your body, know that you are wasting your time and resources and potentially exposing your real detoxing organs to toxic danger.

Stay informed, and stay safe!

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