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Science
Mary Elizabeth Williams

Are your supplements harming you?

"They're taking this black liquid, and apparently parasites come out when you use the bathroom. That's what they claim," dietician Steph Grasso told her horrified followers recently on her TikTok, describing a tincture-like product that is being marketed as a health supplement. "They're taking this to de-bloat and detox their body."

But, as Grasso went on to explain, "Some researchers claim that those 'worms' that they're seeing is actually part of their lining of their intestine."

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