# Supplements causing increasing numbers of hospital visits due to liver injury **URL:** \ **Category:** Alternative Medicine\ **Created:** [December 23, 2013, 1:15am UTC](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/supplements-causing-increasing-numbers-of-hospital-visits-due-to-liver-injury/3285 "2013-12-23T01:15:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![macgyver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@macgyver](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/u/macgyver)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2013, 1:15am UTC](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/supplements-causing-increasing-numbers-of-hospital-visits-due-to-liver-injury/3285/1 "2013-12-23T01:15:31Z")
The liver is the bodies chemistry factory. It takes molecules we ingest and modifies them into things that are less harmful and which can be more easily excreted. Virtually everything we consume passes through the liver and goes through some sort of precessing. Some things do so harmlessly while others can put stress on the liver and over time can cause damage to it. Its no surprise then that given the public’s love affair with supplements over the past few years we are now seeing a jump in cases of liver injury as these unregulated substances are being used more and more. The story below form the NY Times reports on this growing problem. > **[Spike in Harm to Liver Is Tied to Dietary Aids (Published 2013)](https://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/22/us/spike-in-harm-to-liver-is-tied-to-dietary-aids.html?ref=health)** > > Dietary supplements now account for nearly 20 percent of drug-related liver injuries that turn up in hospitals, up from just 7 percent a decade ago, an analysis shows. ---
**Author:** ![asanta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9a28c/32.png) [@asanta](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/u/asanta)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2013, 3:49am UTC](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/supplements-causing-increasing-numbers-of-hospital-visits-due-to-liver-injury/3285/2 "2013-12-23T03:49:37Z")
I’ve seen it before. Not surprised at all. ---
**Author:** ![deros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/49beb7/32.png) [@deros](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/u/deros)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2013, 4:10pm UTC](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/supplements-causing-increasing-numbers-of-hospital-visits-due-to-liver-injury/3285/3 "2013-12-30T16:10:06Z")
The problem with supplements is that there is no control place on them by the FDA. No of use should be taking any of them unless advised to do so by an MD. ---
**Author:** ![loisl](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.centerforinquiry.org/loisl/32/18_2.png) [@loisl](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/u/loisl)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2014, 6:26am UTC](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/supplements-causing-increasing-numbers-of-hospital-visits-due-to-liver-injury/3285/4 "2014-08-12T06:26:30Z")
Sorry friends, I answered some old posts that others have already responded to. In fact, I had responded to them back then, too. I’m sure both Rosanin and Jaysam are trolls as others have stated. If they are not they should have responded by now. Lois ---
**Author:** ![citizenschallengev4](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.centerforinquiry.org/citizenschallengev4/32/28718_2.png) [@citizenschallengev4](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/u/citizenschallengev4)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2023, 1:02pm UTC](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/supplements-causing-increasing-numbers-of-hospital-visits-due-to-liver-injury/3285/5 "2023-07-30T13:02:36Z")
> [@deros](#): > > The problem with supplements is that there is no control place on them by the FDA. No of use should be taking any of them unless advised to do so by an MD. Here’s an interesting follow-up: > **[Many sports supplements have no trace of their key ingredients](https://www.sciencenews.org/article/sport-supplements-ingredients-dietary)** > > A chemical analysis of 57 supplements found that 40 percent had undetectable amounts of key ingredients. Only 11 percent had accurate amounts. > # Many sports supplements have no trace of their key ingredients > > ## Seven products also have at least one compound prohibited by the Food and Drug Administration > > By [Meghan Rosen](https://www.sciencenews.org/author/meghan-rosen) > > JULY 26, 2023 AT 8:00 AM > > Fat incinerator. Metabolism booster. Thermo activator. Some over-the-counter sports supplements advertise ingredients with purported performance-enhancing properties, but it’s anyone’s guess what’s really in that pill or powder. > > Just [11 percent of nearly 60 tested dietary supplements](https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2807343) actually contain an accurate amount of key ingredients listed on the label, scientists report July 17 in _JAMA Network Open_. Forty percent did not contain a detectable amount of the ingredients at all. > > “I just had to shake my head,” says Pieter Cohen, a primary care doctor at Cambridge Health Alliance in Somerville, Mass. … ---
**Author:** ![dadada](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3da27b/32.png) [@dadada](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/u/dadada)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2024, 1:10pm UTC](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/supplements-causing-increasing-numbers-of-hospital-visits-due-to-liver-injury/3285/6 "2024-01-28T13:10:58Z")
Thats so chumpy you can carve it ---
**Author:** ![mriana](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.centerforinquiry.org/mriana/32/18174_2.png) [@mriana](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/u/mriana)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2024, 1:49pm UTC](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/supplements-causing-increasing-numbers-of-hospital-visits-due-to-liver-injury/3285/7 "2024-01-28T13:49:58Z")
Unlike the article, which talks about weight loss supplements and not things like multivitamins and D3, as well as Omegas, which my doctor has me on, you didn’t clarify which supplements. This is important. It’s also important to talk one’s doctor before trying anything like that. Being a pharmacy tech I am also privy to more info about such side effects, which helps me too. Welcome to the forum, Dadada. ---
**Author:** ![lausten](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.centerforinquiry.org/lausten/32/23705_2.png) [@lausten](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/u/lausten)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2024, 2:14pm UTC](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/supplements-causing-increasing-numbers-of-hospital-visits-due-to-liver-injury/3285/8 "2024-01-28T14:14:50Z")
Welcome to the forum dada ---
**Author:** ![dadada](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3da27b/32.png) [@dadada](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/u/dadada)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2024, 9:52pm UTC](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/supplements-causing-increasing-numbers-of-hospital-visits-due-to-liver-injury/3285/9 "2024-01-28T21:52:34Z")
This forum is as dead as flies on my windscreen and then some ---
**Author:** ![lausten](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.centerforinquiry.org/lausten/32/23705_2.png) [@lausten](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/u/lausten)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2024, 10:28pm UTC](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/supplements-causing-increasing-numbers-of-hospital-visits-due-to-liver-injury/3285/10 "2024-01-28T22:28:41Z")
Nice. Thanks for the contribution. How did you find us? ---
**Author:** ![citizenschallengev4](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.centerforinquiry.org/citizenschallengev4/32/28718_2.png) [@citizenschallengev4](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/u/citizenschallengev4)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2024, 11:21pm UTC](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/supplements-causing-increasing-numbers-of-hospital-visits-due-to-liver-injury/3285/11 "2024-01-28T23:21:02Z")
> [@lausten](#): > > Nice. Thanks for the contribution. How did you find us? Have I ever told you, you’re a great sport. Wonderful response. 🤣 , , . ---
**Author:** ![lausten](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.centerforinquiry.org/lausten/32/23705_2.png) [@lausten](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/u/lausten)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2024, 1:54am UTC](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/supplements-causing-increasing-numbers-of-hospital-visits-due-to-liver-injury/3285/12 "2024-01-29T01:54:44Z")
> [@citizenschallengev4](#): > > Wonderful response. Prodigious use of the delete button ---
**Author:** ![lausten](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.centerforinquiry.org/lausten/32/23705_2.png) [@lausten](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/u/lausten)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2024, 2:13am UTC](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/supplements-causing-increasing-numbers-of-hospital-visits-due-to-liver-injury/3285/13 "2024-01-29T02:13:27Z")
And this is the conservative group [https://www.cato.org/blog/new-data-show-migrants-were-more-likely-be-released-trump-biden](https://www.cato.org/blog/new-data-show-migrants-were-more-likely-be-released-trump-biden)