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@theliverdr
Apr 18, 2022 • 13 tweets • 7 min read • Read on X
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Received call from Karnataka colleague abt a man with severe liver failure

For weight loss & fatty liver disease, he paid 6000Rs and tuk these #Herbalife products, for 2 months

Now he is critically ill, may need a new liver

Shutting eyes in broad daylight doesnt make it night
More context:
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, USA run LiverTox calls Herbalife as a "well established cause of clinically apparent liver injury"
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ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK54844…
The Latin-American Drug induced Liver Injury Network has identified Herbalife products as one of the commonest causes for severe liver injury
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33434654/
The Latin-American Drug induced Liver Injury Network has identified Herbalife products as one of the commonest causes for severe liver injury
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33434654/
Herbalife is well known to "silence" its critics who voice their concerns regarding potential toxicities assoc with their products via @MicrobiomDigest
scienceintegritydigest.com/2020/12/20/pap…
Herbalife related liver toxicities keep getting reported from all over the world, like this one here 👇
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32595263/
A recent systematic review and metanalysis showed that Herbalife still featured as one of the top agents causing liver injury along with other liver toxic agents.

read.qxmd.com/read/34307603/…
Herbalife products were also found to be associated with mania and other neuropsychiatric disorders in a recent systematic review and metanalysis of multiple studies
read.qxmd.com/read/30034348/…
Herbalife products where also found to be associated with rare but life threatening diseases of liver and it's blood vessels in a recent report concerning couple of patients
read.qxmd.com/read/27740529/…
And finally

Large scale systematic reviews have shown that Herbalife related products always feature as top causes for severe liver injuries world over.
read.qxmd.com/read/27070596/…

Time to wake up and take notice.
Herbalife related liver injury has been very frequently reported from USA even after regulatory policies where strengthened.

Herbal dietary supplements industry walks free becoz they escape proper clinical studies and testing for safety.
This goes for Herbalife too one day.
moneycontrol.com/news/business/…
You can read more on this here from my discussion with the fantastic @Examinecom where a lot of pertinent questions were answered.
examine.com/members/deep-d…

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Apr 20
Breaking: Our exhaustive paper on liver toxicity of various herbs/ plants used in Ayurveda, Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy (Ayush) systems of alternative medicine is out now (free to read)
with @arifhussaintm

This paper was initially an invited paper by an Indian journal. The reviewers and Editorial board rejected the "invited" paper because they thought the paper was "too critical" of traditional, cultural and religious [unscientific] aspects of healthcare practice among Indian community and feared backlash from the alternative systems regulatory body (Ayush Ministry) and Ayurveda and Homeopathy practitioners & their organizations of they accepted their own "invited" paper.

The Indian medical science community is now hostage to it's unscientific past due to a deepening lack of scientific temperament among doctors, worrying knee-jerk response style assault from the alternative medicine industry/practitioners/regulators and general apathy towards patients & public health. It's disappointing.

Since they were spineless to publish our factual paper, we sent this to a neutral journal for peer review (which is got through) and paid open access publication fee, so that everyone could read it for free.

Please read and share this important paper which educates physicians on herbal liver toxicity from seemingly benign plant sources which they need to be aware of.

The subsequent posts also highlights infographics summary of various toxic Ayush-based botanicals that are increasingly reported to harm public and patients.

Thanks in advance, and I hope doctors in India start fearlessly respecting science rather than intentionally embracing ignorance & selfishly covering up themselves in a safety bubble, thereby endangering public health in the process.journals.lww.com/md-journal/ful…Image
Continued: Summary on Tinospora cordifolia (Giloy) Image
Continued: Summary on Withania somnifera (Ashwagandha) Image
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Apr 13
The classical response from Ayurveda practitioners or Ayurveda sympathizers (and other alternative medicine practitioners) when debating the role of alternative medicine in healthcare is to "go and study Ayurveda or read Ayurveda" to understand it better. This is a logical fallacy, a kind of escapism. Dr. Kanojia here, has not read the Ayurvedic texts, which is why, he keeps fielding for Ayurveda.

India has a 5 year teaching course for students for Bachelors in Ayurvedic Medicine and Surgery called BAMS.

I have the complete syllabus collection of all curriculum approved text books of Ayurveda in my home library. I spent almost two years reading every single book taught in BAMS syllabus.

Classical Ayurvedic teaching material is rich in misogyny, nauseatingly magical thinking, extreme levels of animal cruelty and meat eating, primitive observations, primal herbal and interventional therapies and principles of practice based on obsolete humoral and elemental theories of disease formation and diagnosis.

For example:

For treatment of large tumors, honey was applied over the growth, flies are allowed to lay eggs on the tumor and the maggots are allowed to eat the tumor from within. The residual tumor is then burned off.

For women in obstructive labor, the hips, buttocks are beaten, the lady is made to inhale smoke from burned snake skin and feathers are used for tickling.

For the treatment of tuberculosis (there was no germ theory at the time, but descriptions of emaciation in tuberculosis was observed) the patient is fed herbs and made to drink alcohol (alcohol is in fact one of the risk factors for tuberculosis as we know now) and cure is achieved by massages from "beautiful ladies."

For treatment of seizures in children, demons were considered the cause (they still teach this in the BAMS curriculum) and such demonic possessions were slayed using prayers and chants.

For treatment of diabetes (there was no knowledge of actual diabetes, it was called Premeha and there were different types of Premeha based on diet/ activity, semen quality and based on "doshas". Ayurvedic texts describe some of the causes of "diabetes" to eating meat and drinking milk. There are nearly 20 types of diabetes described in Ayurveda - which of course, is nonsense.

For treatment of sexual disorders, testicles of various types of animals were boiled with herbs and the formulation applied or drank to increase sexual prowess and to "have sex with a 1000 women."

The bottom line is, if you actually read/study the Ayurvedic texts, you'll realize how completely absurd & pseudoscientific the whole system is and you'll never vouch for it again. I am sharing some excerpts from BAMS textbooks in the subsequent post.

Do not send your children to study BAMS and of course, do not read these texts. I did, so that you dont have to. It will take you to a dark place.
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Sep 20, 2023
1 of 45

"There is a place, but it is a long journey
If there is any hope for your jaundiced father, this place holds it"

"Where is it?" - the young man enquires

"A place called Kochi"

A son
A dying father
A terrifying battle
A terrible liver disease

From Telangana to Kerala Image
2 of 45

Few months ago, Deepak, a middle aged man started losing appetite

As days progressed, he felt lethargic and every small work became a chore

Hailing from a small town and with a small family in Telangana, he was taken to a local doctor...
3 of 45

Deepak's wife, a homemaker, looked after their family with love and motherly care

Deepak was the sole bread winner, with 2 children

His daughter started medical school on hefty fees, and the son was about to join an engineering college...
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Jun 29, 2023
Number of people dead from small pox from 1900 to 1980 - THREE HUNDRED MILLION.

Number of people dead due to small pox after 1980
- ZERO. https://t.co/AyC2qFAvkp
Diphtheria

Number of deaths in 1920's before introduction of vaccine, reported annually in the United States - 13,000 to 15,000.

Number of deaths reported from 1996 to 2018 in the United States - ONE.
https://t.co/ISKQJuqHeA
Polio
Outbreak in 1916 - 2000 dead
Outbreak in 1952 - 3000 dead
Survivors - disabled for life.

Number of cases after 1994 in Western Hemisphere
- ZERO.
https://t.co/EBLgktBQPO


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Jun 6, 2023
1/
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International Society of Sports Nutrition position specifies creatine use in sports & athletics only...
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P… Image
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