S1-Bonus1 - Can Your Health Supplements Kill You? I Eng I Dr Abby Philips

A young man, 25 years of age, develops jaundice and brain failure and dies within a week of his symptoms. What killed him? A scientific approach and inquiry led to the diagnosis of green tea extracts-induced liver failure, which he was prescribed for hair growth.

Health supplements, known as herbal & dietary supplements are consumed by millions of people world wide for disease prevention and cure.

- BUT, there is a sinister side to the herbal and dietary supplements industry. Not only they are not tested for effectiveness and safety, in the United States alone, the cause for liver transplantation has exponentially increased only because of increased use of herbal and dietary supplements.

In this episode of The Liver Doc, we discuss the common herbal components in your daily use supplements that can cause severe liver injury, liver failure and death

Featuring:
1. Green tea extract (Camellia sinensis) + Herbalife
2. Aloe vera
3. Turmeric (Curcuma longa)
4. Ashwagandha (Withania somnifera)
5. Garcinia cambogia (Malabar tamarind)
6. Noni juice (Morinda citrofolia)
7. Skull cap (Scutelleria)
8. Fenugreek (Methi)
9. Senna (Cassia angustifolio, Cassia occidentalis)
10. Giloy (Tinospora cordifolia)

00:00 The Sad story of a young man
01:55 How a Hair growth supplement cost a life
03:28 What are Health supplements
07:30 Dangers of Green Tea Extracts
09:21 Dangers of Turmeric
11:25 Dangers of Giloy/Gudduchi
13:32 Dangers of Aloe Vera
14:47 Dangers of Noni Juice
15:50 Dangers of Aswagandha
17:44 Dangers of Senna
20:02 Dangers of Malabar Tamarind/ Garcinia Cambogia
21:47 Dangers of Fenugreek/Methi
23:53 Dangers of Chinese/American Skullcap

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This video is fundamentally based on:
Article 51A[h] of The Constitution of India: It shall be the duty of every citizen of India to develop the scientific temper, humanism and the spirit of inquiry and reform.

Host: Dr Abby Philips M.D., D.M (Clinical Scientist, Hepatology) at Rajagiri Hospital, Aluva,. Cochin, Kerala, India
'The Liver Doc' logo by Yeh! (Indonesia)
'The Liver Doc' logo animation by Navas
Video editing on Adobe Premier Pro
Video shot on Panasonic Lumix S5, 50/1.8 lens

In video clips & music licensed from: Shutterstock & Videvo

[anonymous]

Hello doctor, hope you’re doing well.
Firstly, Thank you very much for doing what you’re doing.

Can you please tell whether Forever Living products especially the aloe Vera gel (comes in yellow bottles) which they ask customers to drink on regular basis are safe for consumption or not?

My friend’s father (perfectly fit and in his late 40s) had been drinking these bottles since past one year and last month he was diagnosed with stage 4 bladder cancer. I suspect these products which they market as ‘herbal and natural’ to be one of the causes for this life threatening disease.

Thankyou.

[anandha]

Thanks for your public service. It takes incredible grit to speak the truth in the face of populistic backlash.

[mitheshpatel]

Made an emergency call to my sister and all family members to stop hair supplements till vetted for a lot short of words for gratitude

[breathlessMay]

Dear Abby, first, thank you for your service - this is an invaluable gift to society and I wish your work finds more traction amongst general public. thanks!

[faizalrafi]

Doctor, you are doing a wonderful job. With the current political/cultural scenario exposing "natural medicine" quackery and speaking on the behalf of Modern medicine are quite risky and you need some good amount of braveness to speak up. Kudos to you!

[albiorixsaturn]

Such life saving information. You are crusading against misinformation in its age. Can't thank you enough sir! More power to you!

[tryingtobebetter]

Abby sir mbbs graduate here . Thank u for making these videos . U are making videos to actually help people thank u . You have no idea but u are doing god's work here. Sir a request can u also request a neprologist or make video on u know these herbs or supplements affecting kidney as well. Let people know the truth.

[lone_]

After watching your videos, I stopped to take ayurvedic medicines (migraine). And now i am taking treatment from a neurologist.

[sowdamini.p.rraman]

Thank you Dr Abby.. hats off to you. You seem to be leading a one man army against this herbal industry and lot of misinformation.. people like you are the need of the hour. Hats off to you..

[JREJOE]

Thank you for the video and Twitter posts.

I went to an actual allopathic doctor with my dad, who was hooked on ayurvedic stuff and refused to get medical help for bleeding sores on legs.

I complained to the dr and asked him to put some sense into my diabetic dad, and convince him to go for clinical research and evidence based medicine rather than pseudo medicine.

The allopathic dr, quotes we cannot completely discredit ayurveda, for some stuff like jaundice we don't have any cures. 🤦‍♂️ (Not making this up! 💯 real)

I was in such a state of disbelief, my dad does the methi decoction too. This was told by a relatively young diabetes specialist in a posh area in a metro.

I wish we had more doctors like you. You are the real hero!

[anoopchalil]

Optimen multivitamin by opiimum nutrution...expensive .one bottle has 90 tablets

One ingredient is green tea extract : 20 mg

Dosage written is 3 per day...


I put it in waste bin today😮

[vinodnambiar]

Thanks Abby. Highly appreciate your efforts for public health. Hope we will have more videos from you. Also waiting for your speeches in club house rooms like Kaipps Café, Lucy, Science Brigade .

[raniprem]

Dr. Thank you so much. You are doing very good service. Pls continue your great work. I had a surgery and after the surgery the doc gave me a supplement with green tea extract. Thankfully as all indians have a bad habit of not completing the medication I stopped taking it for which iam very thankful.

[munmunhazarika]

"They try to reduce weight with herbal supplement and end up with new Liver".... Liver Doc

[avx]

Shocking and sad to see ignorance of ppl. Thanx for this initiative.

[lateralenquirer]

This video is amazing. I hope it reaches every advocate of herbal cures. It is so unfortunate that in the era we now live in where we can demonstrate clearly that these practices of ingesting unrefined herbs are toxic, we still have a large section who champion such nonsense. This video will immensely help all those who are yet undecided and are being defrauded by alternative herbal cure salesmen/women. More power to you

[uusimaa]

I found out about your channel through Vimoh and I must say it's been really helpful and that too for educational purposes. I have been taking an ayurvedic supplement for drowsiness and lethargy (my blood test reports were fine, I don't have any deficiencies) and after watching this video, I checked its ingredients and found out that it contains both ashwagandha and giloy. I will discontinue this medication now.

[midhunmidhun]

Sir...i use .. omega 3 .. supplement...is that....ok.. please 🙏🏻 reply..sir

[munmunhazarika]

Doc you are a showman sir.... So much tension, suspence and cathartic video.

[galejohnson]

The outside green part of aloe Vera, I have been told. Is high in latex. Many of us have latex allergies, so I don’t touch anything with aloe vera