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Congressman's Wife Died After Taking Herbal Dietary Supplement

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0:00 foreign [Music] just passed away last year actually sorry didn't mean to make it sound like she's like fighting for her life thank God it was last year just died the thing is they they now know a link to the cause of her death uh-oh and it is something so tiny it is is the husband an herbal remedy herbal so wait Rhino horn it's a congresswoman that's why congressman's wife yeah that's a NorCal like Northern California yeah and then so is there a significance to that title like is she assassinated or some ████ oh no no there's no like I mean they they ruled her death accidental since the beginning but they didn't they

0:50 weren't able to narrow down a cause and it's something called a white mulberry Leaf oh that's what moths eat right they eat mulberry leaves oh I don't know fist by the way oh silkworms he does this but his biceps like up here it's one of those dietary uh herbs that you know like when people were doing fit tea and all that ████ and they were like oh it makes me lose weight but they're really just like all their Waters just leaving diarrhea yeah and there's constant Diaries just bad for you yeah so like she had the effect that a lot of people were warning others about during that fit tea craze time and they were saying like your uh intestines and stomach can swell up that's what happened to her and it was from like the tiniest like they found like just a tiny ass Mulberry loose in her stomach damn yeah and she just like dropped dead yeah she died from the inflammation did she

1:41 die looking pretty bomb though which are you looking ████ was she losing weight did she achieve her goal or was it like her first day on the diet that would suck so bad she's like all right time to change my life and then she ████ takes the supplement and dies it said because she's not like she's not overweight like this is how she looked like prior to her bangable but like like you wouldn't think a person like that would need to go on a diet like that right it said she had diabetes yeah so it's also um she looks fit right there yeah she looks good red is a good color on her yeah it's marketed that Mulberry Leaf is marketed for diabetes and weight loss oh wait so Mulberry Leaf she had an allergic reaction or what was it no she had the actual reaction that you get when you when you're the danger that they tell you for like cheese that dehydrate you yeah when you're dehydrated from like a

2:32 supplement because it's like so rapid and more than you should be dehydrated your your uh organs can inflame and that's how you die so why are they selling this product that's a good that's a good question so the answer to that is that because it's a known as an herbal or alternative thing there's no control yeah that's how they get you because there's no Food and Drug for supplements it says there's like 80 000 products on the shelves that are considered like herbal or alternative or a homeopathic or whatever ████ no yeah well that's exactly why they don't regulate it because most of them are considered ████ and they don't do anything they sell you a dream but every now and then because of no regulation something can slip through the cracks that's just a little more potent if under certain uh quantities my mom used to get this um herbal

3:22 supplement for like it was it melaton it wasn't uh melatonin but it was to sleep so but it would ████ make me like kind of high and I loved it and I loved it and I was like Mom I can't sleep again I just cannot sleep and she goes oh it's discontinued because there was some kind of thing which I was like what the ████ are you talking I don't want to hear that Mom what the ████ mom the illegal substance or something like that so like you know how they do that ████ like four local right like oh yeah Dad there was an illegal thing or some ████ they had to redo the formula well that's that's what's kind of I wish I knew what it was man because ████ I was hallucinating at night to go get the generic Chinese herbal medicines work though yeah I mean some arguably do good things bad things it's all the thing is it's not that they're saying uh they're

4:13 just saying they're really lacks on the regulation because they assume it doesn't need it but if certain things do work then that means they can also work against you because there's a potency either direction and people react differently too yeah it's just like when there's 80 000 of those you know what I mean like who's really gonna go oh I found the one in the needle in the haystack that actually does do something and none of them do anything and a lot of things independently go to shelves like let's say you're a store and you're gonna stock herbal stuff that's just between you and the person making it you don't have a third party that's going let's see if this woman I died you know like they're not doing that how come they found this a year later I think they have a lot to do so you know it wasn't number one on the list ████ they were at the drug they were just going to live what could have killed her it

5:04 takes a long time yeah to find like autopsies and stuff and I guess you know finally they were able to see that it was this little plant was she feeling like ill before was she feeling anything or I should just like one day just died and what was she wearing when she died yeah that red pantsuit yeah so supplements don't work dick watch not those ones not the 50 ones the 50 ones are basura they're all garbage what's fit tea I see all the Instagram girls promoting it so I don't know they have diarrhea tea yeah yeah it's diarrhea tea or it's like a bunch of caffeine it makes you like you just like you lose your water weight like oh so then people think they're losing weight because they they're just pissing out a lot yeah and it also like has a way of kind of quelling your appetite because you're just ████ sick you know you just don't feel like eating it's like mad caffeine you like fat burners or like a

5:55 combination of either like high caffeine or appetite suppressant things like there's like lollipops that you could eat that are like Diet suppressant appetite suppressant I mean those sounds dangerous my friend used to do Hydroxycut and I'm like oh that's wasn't that right god dude and I ████ them up because he was fat I was really skinny during that time so we both had the opposite thing we're trying to do and he was on this Hydroxycut ████ and I was like that ████ don't seem right I feel like there was a class action lawsuit against it for sure yeah it was uh back in that day um so like something that's really effective actually for losing weight is ephedra but the problem is it makes your heart beat like a ████ so the side effect is insane that's right and then uh but before they regulated it like all the fat burners of the day had it in it but then I think people started dying because of heart complications

6:45 they have to take it out but like Hydroxycut xenodrine like a bunch of people had ephedra in it and that's that's the whole thing about like substances that are off the shelf is that if you look at the bottle of anything right it'll say um if it's a controlled substance it'll say consult your physician right because every single thing that's available could affect someone differently depending on their own like you know their body or whatever other medication they're taking like yeah because if you're like let's say you're a drinker or whatever and the night before you could have drank alcohol and maybe it's not out of your system so you take something that has like ephedra in it in the morning it it's going to hit you three times harder than what it's supposed to hit you know yeah that's what they suspect happened with her is that it might have been in combination with some prescription medicine yeah yeah yeah yeah because of that you know and not Consulting with what'll do what and when she experienced what happened

7:37 with like the low blood sugar and yeah and then passed away and there hasn't been another reported death from white mulberry plants so it's kind of like a freak accident because of like the combination of whatever her unique lifestyle was in that moment yeah it could be and that might have just been you know the element that caused the whole equation to go Haywire what about vitamins do they work well isn't isn't vitamins like they it's pointless to take too much of it yeah right like your body can't even process thousand percent vitamin C oh like yeah when you take like emergency or Airborne it's like this is like 1500 vitamin C but your body can only handle 100 I take emergency for the electrolytes sometimes if I don't have like an electrolyte drink I'll just like pour it in there but it really depends like you could probably get most of your food from just most vitamins from like food from food from an orange but then if you're

8:27 missing it then you that's why people take like a multivitamin so it's like it covers their bases or they take like an athletic greens because it has all that stuff but then for you to like go through each vitamin be like am I absorbing enough of these vitamins else I'm eating them it's like it's you might as well just not even work are there vitamins that are just not that important you don't really need them all no they're all important all the most they're both dependent though the most important vitamins your body will make it like your body itself will make it you know but then the problem is it's like so I think we're in a very like shortcut Society ID so these things are called supplements right it's supposed to supplement what you're supposed to do so if you're having a good diet you drink water you sleep then you probably don't even need it yeah but it's or like the the the the law of diminishing returns is so little it's like yeah maybe you can optimize your body by 10

9:18 whatever but people I think are just skipping all of that and then they go you know what I don't even eat vegetables at all so I'm gonna eat athletic greens yeah but it's like you should probably do it the other way around or get like all your Greens in first and then the occasional timer traveling whatever like oh here this will help me fill the Gap it's the other way around supplements are like plus or minus five percent change yeah a lot of times so because not only because of this but the FDA is trying to get um supplement makers to list the ingredients of everything they have but there's a council of um responsible nutrition who protects supplement makers and they're lobbying against that saying that that's like giving your recipe a counsel for more responsible nutrition because you know what they do that's weird a lot of these companies that are like kind of sketch they'll cover up their Blends and like proprietary yeah

10:08 yeah yeah so it's like they can't really tell you what's in there or they'll name it like a lot of Fitness uh ones are like Alpha size that's our proprietary blend or whatever yeah and then they you know those are the s█████ ones yeah they don't tell you exactly what's in there but like unless you go to barbell Brigade they'll actually no for real though like like everything's missed it out everything's listed out in the dosage and that's why it's important but then like a lot of companies don't have that transparency yeah that's why here with 10 on Code 10 on yeah dude where's these where's the ingredients right ten percent plus whey protein is this can you cook with these instructions no it looks like you're hiding something Buddy so the milligrams are here though it's right here but if you also want to lose weight get the get lean program for 15 on right now

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