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That and dietary supplements. So many people take dietary supplements without ever getting a simple metabolic panel to even see if they need the supplements.
by Simulacra 8y ago
That and dietary supplements. So many people take dietary supplements without ever getting a simple metabolic panel to even see if they need the supplements.
- Pharmakon 8y agoI just read a BBC story about a man who nuked his liver by taking concentrated green tea capsules. He requires a full transplant and four years later his kidneys are failing and he has chronic abdominal pain. It seems that one or more compounds in green tea (safe as a beverage, problematic as a concentrate) may negatively impact liver function in some genetically vulnerable populations. Truthfully though, it’s not known exactly what happened, only that it does happen.
- jfk13 8y agoFor anyone interested, that story was discussed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18299354 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18299354.