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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sud5nala" data-source="post: 1209185" data-attributes="member: 307629">Alicki, what did they have to say about the effects of Gilbert's syndrome? Gilbert's syndrome is a good thing. Since about 2005, 2 or 3 studies have concurred that free (unconjugated) bilirubin is a powerful antioxidant and unusually high bilirubin was associated with less cardiovascular disease. When I was young, I had one bilirubin measurement, it was 2.3 (which isn't really high; the champions have 3.5 to 5). Nowadays it's lower, usually 1.3 to 1.6. GS was discovered around 1900. For the next century, medical dictionaries said it had no known positive or negative effects on health. Now a U.S. National Institutes of Health Website is casually saying it's bad, but they must not have a basis for saying so.</blockquote>

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