Vicky thought supplements would improve her health. They nearly killed her

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Vicky thought supplements would improve her health. They nearly killed her
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Vicky started to take dietary supplements to boost her immune system. She was unknowingly poisoning herself.

started to feel unwell after she was prescribed painkillers to help manage an infection, she started to take dietary supplements to boost her immune system. She was unknowingly poisoning herself.

Also suffering "excruciating" lower limb pain, Ms Sellers was diagnosed with peripheral neuropathy. She continued to decline."I had MRIs done to both my spine and brain to look for lesions because it looked most likely from the symptoms that I had multiple sclerosis," she said. Blood tests found Ms Sellers's vitamin B12 level was within the normal range but her vitamin B6 levels were 585, where 30 to 110 was considered normal, making her levelsA blood test discovered Vicky Sellers's vitamin B6 levles were high.Ms Sellers took her results to a neuromuscular neurologist and gave him a list of the vitamins she had been taking. He confirmed her levels were toxic.

She started experiencing numbness and pain in her legs and her doctor diagnosed her with peripheral neuropathy."I remember sitting down one evening and I was watching TV and suddenly the television went only to one eye," she said.An MRI confirmed a brain aneurism. Despite surgery to treat it in 2019, Ms McInerney's condition was worsening.Twelve times more than the healthy limit"They told me it was just anxiety … they told me to go home and breathe through it," she said.

Professor Moses says people often don't know the doses they are consuming, which can result in cumulative toxicity. "Taking too much becomes toxic, so we've simply got to throw away the idea that you can take as much as you want," Professor Moses said.

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