07/11/2025
Herbs are not automatically safer than pills. Please always consult with your physician or practitioner about what you are taking, why, and what you would like to introduce. Please, keep us in the loop during your health journey! The woman in this article took 10 times the amount she was supposed to and because she was unsupervised, didn't find out what was wrong until very late.
Katie Mohan started taking daily turmeric pills in March after seeing a doctor on Instagram tout its benefits for inflammation and joint pain relief. A few weeks later, the 57-year-old started having stomach pain, nausea and fatigue.
“I just did not feel well generally,” she said. “I also noticed that despite drinking a lot of water every day, that my urine was darker.”
Mohan didn’t link her symptoms to the herbal pills until she saw an NBC News report in May about rising liver damage from supplements. She recognized her symptoms in a patient taking the same high dose of turmeric.
Within a week, Mohan went to urgent care, where tests showed her liver enzymes were 70 times the normal level.
“It was very serious,” said Dr. Nikolaos Pyrsopoulos, a hepatologist at NYU. “Katie actually was one step before full liver damage, liver failure, requiring liver transplant.”
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