Excerpted from "Supplements: Things you can do to help your recovery"
By Dr Barry Peatfield and Nikki Tovell
Where possible, buy your supplements in either a liquid or capsule form, since these are better absorbed. Also, many of the binders and fillers in tablets can cause sensitivity reactions - if your liver is stressed, which it will be if you've been ill for a long time, it will be unable to cope and you are therefore likely to react badly to a lot of substances which would normally not cause a problem. Avoid coffee, if you can bear to. Coffee causes the liver an awful lot of work. If you are the sort of person who can drink coffee to no apparent effect, this means that the two sections of your livers' detoxifying system are not working in harmony.
Phase One breaks down chemicals and passes them on in an even more potentially toxic form to the second phase, which then eliminates them. If drinking coffee makes you very "hyper", Phase One is underactive and not breaking it down effectively, and extra loading then gets put on to Phase Two. If you are the opposite, and drinking coffee has little or no effect on you, then Phase One is overactive, which means it is producing even more toxic substances to be passed on to Phase Two. Drinking green tea, or any other herbal teas, is far less stress for your poor exhausted system. Green Tea is rich in all kinds of good and friendly things. It goes without saying that where possible, you should try to eat organic produce. Less toxins = less loading. Less loading = better healing potential.