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Do not take hair, nails, and skin growth multivitamins unless you want to end up like me in the hospital with organ failure. I’m yellow as a minion. Like, you see that Um, my skin’s yellow. My pea’s yellow. I’m jaundice as So, you’re all guzzling these gummies, but what you’re getting is highdose vitamin A, highdose green tea extract, ashwagandha. And did you know that all of those have been linked to liver failure? People have died. Some of them required liver transplantations, which by the way is a very morbid operation and a tough life after. Heck, you think green tea is harmless? Yeah, if you drink the green tea. But there have been reports of hundreds of people going into liver failure, dying, requiring transplantation because of green tea, specifically in supplements. Because you can pack so much of these compounds in there, they can be toxic. Don’t just keep popping these gummies because they taste good. Look at the actual serving size. And if you’re going to combine supplements, definitely look at what’s in them. Look at the subf facts. And at the bare minimum, and you didn’t hear it from me, but take these labels, put them in Chad GBT, and see if it’s even safe to combine them. Obviously, do more research than that. Better nothing.
