Did you ever wonder if the food you eat is a direct effect on your health, well-being,

and longevity?

Well, I'm here to end that mystery you ARE the food you eat.

Welcome to the Nutrition Facts Podcast.

I'm your host, Dr. Michael Greger.

Today we take a slug of kombucha.

And wonder, one of the risks versus benefits of doing such a thing.

My video on kombucha, profiled a report published in the Journal of Intensive Care Medicine,

a case of kombucha tea toxicity, young guy, ending up in acidotic coma, which concluded

that while kombucha tea is considered a healthy elixir, the limited evidence currently

available raises considerable concern that it may pose serious health risks.

Consumption of this tea should be discouraged and maybe associated with a life-threatening

elactic acidosis.

This is just one of several case reports of serious and sometimes fatal liver dysfunction

in elactic acidosis within close proximity of ingestion.

For example, two cases in eye with severe metabolic acidosis, including one death, the triggering

of a life-threatening autoimmune muscle disease requiring a emergency surgery, probably related

to kombucha, shaking, shortness breath, and a movement disorder after consumption of

tea and no other medications, zero stomia, dizziness, nausea, vomiting, headache, and neck pain,

which recurred on re-injustion of the tea, then another case of severe metabolic acidosis,

the case of hepatotoxicity, liver toxicity that result after stopping kombucha, why these

sporadic cases, maybe some unusual toxins developed in a particular batch?

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