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<\/p>\nThe supplement industry frequently comes under fire for making unsubstantiated claims that can lead to poor health outcomes.<\/p>\n
In a recent example, a hospital patient has highlighted the dangers linked to seemingly harmless nail, hair, and skin supplements.<\/p>\n
Florida gastroenterologist Dr Joseph Salhab commented on the recent case involving a young woman after she was hospitalised for liver failure following unsupervised supplementation.<\/p>\n
It concerns Jenny Ramirez, who made a plea on her TikTok, urging others: \u201cDo not take skin, hair and nail growth multivitamins, unless you want to end up like me, in the hospital with organ failure.”<\/p>\n
Jenny suffered liver failure after taking supplements for hair, skin and nail growth<\/p>\n
TIKTOK <\/p>\n
“I\u2019m yellow as a minion, my skin is yellow, my pee is yellow, my liver is through the roof,” Jenny told viewers from a hospital bed. <\/p>\n
\u201cMy GI doctor asked if I\u2019d started a hair growth vitamin. After looking it up, we found that the ingredient that he said can cause liver failure.”<\/p>\n
Dr Salhab noted in response to the video that the concerns raised are “absolutely true”.<\/p>\n
“I\u2019m seeing more cases of liver failure, due to certain harmful supplements, and it\u2019s becoming such a problem that we\u2019re seeing an eightfold increase in liver failure,” he shared.<\/p>\n
“In fact, 15 million Americans may be taking supplements that are harmful to their liver. <\/p>\n
“It\u2019s not because supplements are inherently bad. There are a lot of good, beneficial supplements.<\/p>\n
“But the problem is that the safety data for a supplement does not have to be proven because it hits the shelf, and anyone can make them.<\/p>\n
“This means your favourite supplement can be contaminated with harmful ingredients and additives, so here\u2019s what you\u2019re gonna do to protect yourself.”<\/p>\n
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Dr Salhab recommends consulting a doctor before taking new supplements<\/p>\n
TIKTOK<\/p>\n
The first, and arguably most important, step in protecting yourself is making sure your supplement comes from a reputable manufacturer.<\/p>\n
\u201cMake sure the ingredients are third-party verified,\u201d said Dr Salhab. \u201cYou can use a website called Livertox, where you can see whether a supplement or ingredient has had documented cases where it caused liver problems.<\/p>\n
He also urged everyone to get their liver checked on a regular – preferably monthly – basis.<\/p>\n
\u201cAlways make sure you tell your doctor about any supplements you\u2019re taking to make sure it\u2019s not interacting with anything,\u201d he urged viewers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The supplement industry frequently comes under fire for making unsubstantiated claims that can lead to poor health outcomes.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4318],"tags":[105,4434,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-204976","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nutrition","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-nutrition","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114726753003828186","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}