Internal Medicine Specialist Assoc. Prof. Dr. Murat Akarsu, who warns against the unconscious use of products such as vitamins and food supplements in society, said, “We see very unconscious uses of vitamin D and B12. Patients constantly use supplements that they see as part of their meals. We often investigate whether there is an underlying cause. They may be influenced by social media, I would like to say that they demand drugs that can be bought without a prescription very intensely, especially these vitamins and supplements are used very wrongly. They can come with very high liver enzymes. They can disrupt our renal and nervous functions and can also cause cardiac effects.”
Experts warn that various products used in the society with the influence of social media or environmental advice and without the advice of a physician can have negative effects on people. University of Health Sciences (SBU) Istanbul Kanuni Sultan Süleyman Training and Research Hospital Internal Medicine Department Training and Administrative Officer Assoc. Prof. Dr. Murat Akarsu also gave important advice to citizens against situations such as unconscious vitamin and food supplements and frequent consumption of various vegetables. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Akarsu said that the use of vitamins and supplements without taking into account the health status of people other than expert advice has a negative effect on many organs, especially the liver and kidneys.
“They can come in with very high liver enzymes”
Internal Medicine Specialist Assoc. Prof. Dr. Murat Akarsu, who said that it is wrong to try to treat diseases with products used with the advice of the environment without a doctor's control in the treatment of diseases, said: “We see very wrong uses such as parsley extracts, garlic, cinnamon, which are also talked about a lot on social media, for reasons such as the advice of friends and neighbors. When you make a parsley extract and consume 3 meals a day, patients can apply to hospitals with toxic hepatitis. Liver enzymes can be very high. A patient may try to treat his blood pressure with garlic juice or by swallowing garlic. In such cases, the treatments we give are often pushed aside. We see many patients trying to treat their diabetes with cinnamon alone. We never treat diabetes with cinnamon, we do not push our diabetes treatment aside. We do not try to solve our digestive problems or blood pressure problems in the body with a parsley extract. The products we need to have on our table, we should not make extracts and use them instead of medicines. We should consume plenty of salads and eat a Mediterranean-type diet.
“Losing weight through diarrhea mechanism is not healthy”
Stating that Turkey draws a negative picture about obesity and that people can turn to different preferences from time to time in terms of slimming, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Akarsu emphasized the importance of healthy weight loss. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Akarsu said, “Our country is one of the countries with the highest number of obese patients in Europe, and our number is increasing. Herbal, green teas are mostly used for obesity. A significant portion of these teas are mixtures whose content we do not know and they have very significant toxic effects. They have very important toxic effects on both the intestinal mucosa and the liver. People lose 2-3 kilograms, and those kilograms are replaced the next day with fluid intake.
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