Woman Almost Dies after Taking Daily Supplements?
Woman Almost Dies after Taking Daily Supplements?
One Texas woman says she almost died after taking a daily supplement. Emily’s friend suggested a supplement to help her acne-prone skin. She took the supplement for 10 months before experiencing stomach pain, fatigue, and the yellowing of her eyes. After being admitted to the hospital she was diagnosed with acute liver failure. Was the supplement to blame? Gastroenterologist Dr. Su Sacher weighs in.
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Almost like she is posing to take pictures while she needs a liver transplant, umm
Suspicious that they don’t even name the supplement…
Wow, major fear mongering to get people to stop taking “supplements.” This show was always sh*t
How do you post something like this and not tell what the supplement was?!
This would be accutaine it destroys your liver!! So dumb they don’t say what kind it is. Useless
A non story about a non story, only in the US.
Don’t take any big pharma pill period!
This is the most worthless load of nonsense if you don’t tell us what the fucking supplement is 😂
What supplement did she take?
She had acne, so I’m guessing she took very high doses of vitamin A. Reason why acne medication like Accutane and Roaccutane are prescription only.
Sometimes they take supplements more then their prescription meds? Paid for by criminals
You folks should discuss all of the people that do die from medications & misdiagnosis on the part of physicians.
15years ago I was taking L-carnitine before workouts, due to a injury I’ve stopped training but continued taking it and ended up in the ER with high fever, hallucinations and kidney failure. Glad I didn’t end like this.
Be REAL and disclose what supplement she was taking????
Whoah! Liver transplant. That escalated really quickly.
Whats the supplement
What a waste of time watching this, nothing was mentioned on what supplements she was taking. No help at all.
It was a $50 herbal supplement “Balance” pills for hormonal balance and weight management. It apparently contained Folate (as 5-Methyletrahydrofolate Calcium) 400 mcg
Chromium (as TRAACS Nicotinate Glycinate Chelate) 120 mcg
Myo-Inositol 2g
Setria L-Glutathione (Reduced) 250mg
3,3′-Diindolylmethane (DIM) 150mg
Sodium R-Alpha Lipoic Acid (ALA) 100mg
I looked it up
I’m guessing vit A
I just wasted 15 minutes of my life to find out nothing
How did she get a liver so quickly theres a waiting list, thats unbelievable whats going on i don’t mean anything from this and im glade shes ik but again. Theres a waiting list for this! shes a vary lucky individual happy she ok
The doctor that said supplements are drugs is dumb. Medicine and pharmaceutical is drugs, supplements are not drugs. What a dumb statement. Doctor know nothing about nutrition only about Medicine 💊.
Its OK for big pharma and the med profession to keep us sick, kill us slowly and NEVER heal people, as well as hide the truth of healing from us. But if someone has a reaction, doesn’t research, follow instructions, or take responsibility for their choices, its OK to make natural choices look bad and scare people!! Do NOT listen to the fear mongering!!
Clickbait 😅
Today they would send u home saying u have hepatitis doctors don’t give a shit anymore our medical system stinks today in 2025
They don’t want to get sued. She probably settled out of court. Click bait. Hopefully they took the “supplement” off the market.🤷🏽♀️
Not all supplement are created equal. Most are synthetic garbage. Do your research and choose wisely.
Pointless video does not give the name of the supplement. Make better vids! Stop wasting people’s time!!😡😡😡
pointless didnt say what medication was killing her. useless and i dont know why this show to my feed far from what i watch everyday -_-
BS video, and not at all informative!
Thanks for nothing
She was taking TURMERIC — It’s HIGH In Oxalates. I avoid it. It’s being added to so many supplements & foods now. I am sensitive to Oxalates & nightshades, so I would caution before you take it
This is all BS! Big Pharma and the medical industry DO NOT help you!!!! How many people have had major side effects or even died from prescription drugs, vaccines, and doctors who are practicing medicine??? Doctors are supposed to do know harm! They definitely DO NOT heal you, they are not gods, and most of the time ,don’t even know what is wrong, just like this woman said! Medical history is just so they can blame your genetics because they have no answers for you besides – here take this pill or get this vaccine, but they ever help cure or heal you. They are just legal drug dealers! Your environment, the unhealthy air – caused from geo-engineering, fluoride and chlorine in the water, GMO toxic foods covered in pesticides and processed full of chemicals, prescriptions, and the synthetic chemicals in your clothing are the problems – and then some!!!!!!
Yeah, how about episode about patients actually dying after taking pharmaceuticals prescribed by doctors?
you should a show on the reactions of patients taking multiple MEDICATIONS combined and how the combination of drugs affects the patients.
Click Bait Propaganda!
Those damn cheap suppliments out of grocery stores
Funny, the woman who suffered acute liver failure didn’t bother to mention WHICH supplement(s) she was taking…🤨 or even the progression of her illness.. Gees what a disappointing "discussion"…could have at least told us of supplements that have commonly caused major health issues! 🙄😒
Yeah OZEMPIC
The point is to scare you from seeking natural methods.. They only want you to take their snake oil
Pharmaceuticals ruined my health.
Natural supplements restored my health.
I’m take lots f vitamins and gave no problems. I am against medications
I don’t find any credibility in this video. It sounds as if the woman was taking a blended supplement which would come from a particular comapany. It might or might no be a propietary blend, but common sense would dictate, if a supplement was suspect to ccontact both the supplement manufacturer and the FDA.
Also, assuming this story is true, you have no idea if the instructions were followed, if this woman was consuming energy drinks, etc.
Then go to the top of the transplant list over top of those who had been waiting, all sounds very suspecious.
Zinc and Vitamin e are two which come to mind which will cause jaundice.
Doing an internet search, it seems her name is Emily Goss, but there was no litigation which can be found regarding the supplement company being sued.
It was an otc supplement, Balance by Alani Nu.
If you look at the ingredients, as listed, there is not an issue for the liver, if the directions are followed. However, some of these compounds can be taken for up to a year without liver damage.
Again, it is unknown how this woman took the supplement. Plus, if she was consuming energy drinks of taking any other supplements which could have increased the rda of supplement intake.
Reviewing the ingredients as advertised and the amounts in a serving, the ingredients are well within accepted safe margins. If there were liver issues, the one ingredient which I would suspect, in my opinion, would the the DIM if the directions on the label are not followed or ignored.
That being said, you have to go back and read the instructions on the label. According to the label, you take four pills per serving, per day.
This is where things can get murky where people decide to self medicate. Okay, a friend told her about this supplement. She goes out and buys this supplement.
The first questions which comes to mind is were the instructions followed? A serving to some people means taking something for breakfast, lunch and dinner. It is spelled out that one bottle has enough pills for thirty days, one serving is four pills/day with a total pill count of 120 in the bottle.
There is a societal belief that if some is good, more is better. In the case of medications and supplements, it doesn’t work that way. If you start exceding the rda, supplements and medications can become toxic and even kill you.
If you are taking something like supplements on a regular basis, it is best to make sure that the rda is not being boosted by consuming energy bars or drinks which can, also, have the same ingredients in them. I am not implying that she didn’t follow the instruction, but there are other issues to consider as well.
Typically, a supplement is going to have a half life. As there are different ingredients in the supplement, the half life will be based upon the longest active ingredient in the pill.
If you took the supplement again where the bulk of the ingredients hadn’t exited the system, there could be a problem.
The body can be very efficient at removing compounds from the body, but if you take medications and supplements arbitarily, this could present a problem as well.
Again, to err on the side of caution, little is known about this case, including her medical history as to what was causing her acne in the first place.
There are a lot of blanks left to be filled in.
When dealing with medications and supplements, always read all disclosures and it is good to research the ingredients as well just in case something was over looked.
Good news is, whatever caused her liver issue, she lived to see another day.
This video was from 5 years ago and a heard about a study that was done that concluded that taking green tea extract in a powdered form poses a risk of “liver injury”. I learned this from one of those shorts videos that was talking about what they changed in the new AG1 formula that recently was launched. Taking the green tea extract out of the formula was one of two, more major changes they made that the content creator talked about.
Too many questions, not enough definitive information. In a world where many died in hospitals during the “pandemic” that should not have died, this story basically says, ignore that that happened, and trust doctors that say you need a new organ but they don’t know why.
What supplements ? This whole thing is useless
Right they didnt say what supplement it was .
thats so stupid period!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is all BULLSHIT! ITS TO SCARE U SO U DONT TAKE HERBAL SUPPLEMENTS! NOTICE THEY DONT TELL U THE SUPPLEMENTS BECAUSE THEY CANT OR U WILL FIGURE OUT ITS BS! REMEMBER, A DOCTOR WAS JUST MURDERED FOR CLAIMING TO CURE CANCER FROM PARASITES. THEY KILLED HER! WHY? UR WORTH MORE SICK THAN CURED.
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