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green tea extract
red yeast rice
turmeric or curcumin
“Potentially hepatotoxic botanical products are the products that contain plant-based ingredients which have been implicated as potential causes of liver damage,” Alisa Likhitsup, MD, MPH, clinical assistant professor in the Department of Internal Medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the University of Michigan and lead author of this study explained to Medical News Today.
“How these products cause liver damage is not yet known but it is likely due to metabolism that occurs in the liver after the products were consumed,” she said.
“As a practicing hepatologist, I have seen patients who had liver injury from taking dietary supplements and some were fatal which required emergency liver transplant. Data from Drug Induced Liver Injury Network reported the rates of liver injury due to botanical products has been on the rise from 7% in 2004-2005 to 20% in 2013-2014. Therefore, I had (an) interest to analyze the prevalence and see how many Americans were consuming these products,” Likhitsup continued.
Sources - https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/6-popular-herbal-supplements-green-tea-curcumin-linked-potential-liver-risks#Studying-6-potentially-hepatotoxic-botanical-products