Herbalife Supplements and Liver Toxicity [Video]

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Herbalife is a multi-billion-dollar, multi-level marketing supplement company that was forced to pay hundreds of millions of dollars to settle charges of deception and corrupt business practices. It also holds the distinction of being the dietary supplement most frequently implicated in injuring the livers of consumers.

Herbal does not mean innocuous. Cases of severe liver toxicity associated with Herbalife supplements started to be published in 2007 around the world. As the accompanying editorial summarized, there were 22 cases of liver damage following Herbalife intake in those first two reports, with two patients developing fulminant liver failure requiring liver transplantation. Only one survived. The editorial concluded that this clearly shifts the risk-benefit ratio against their use. Maybe it’s contamination with chemicals or …