It used to be if you wanted to get buff you joined a gym, hired a personal trainer, and worked out on a buffet of machines until your body was a fined tuned machine. Nowadays, people just take pills.
While they might help you to look good and excel in sports, some dietary supplements and nutritional supplements are filled with chemicals which have been known to cause wrongful death, and the amount of users continues to grow every single day. In the world of sports, the battle rages on over whether or not to ban these performance enhancing drugs.
Being personal injury attorneys, our San Diego firm know that some drugs or food products have the potential to cause conditions that lead to personal injury or wrongful death. For example, a sip of drinks like Redline or VPX contain about as much caffeine as a can of Coke and the chemical reaction these drinks produce is called “thermogenesis”, which is the production of heat in the body.
Sometimes when you take supplements, your body temperature can go through the roof. That heat is generated through a byproduct of the body shivering, as the body warms with each contraction. That added heat combined with any kind of physical activity can be a problem.
It was not until 2001 when the Minnesota Vikings’ tackle Korey Stringer, Northwestern University safety Rashidi Wheeler, and Baltimore Orioles’ pitcher Steve Bechler all experienced wrongful deaths after taking a supplement known as an ephedra supplement. They all died after getting overheated while playing their respective games.
After the death of these three athletes there was a ban in the United States on ephedra supplements, but that does not mean that all supplements have been banished. More and more dietary and nutritional supplements hit the health food stores every single day, setting up millions of people for personal injury or to be the target of product liability.
Our San Diego personal injury lawyers want you to research all the facts before deciding if a certain supplement or vitamin is right for you. We are aware that many over the counter vitamins are safe to use, but if you have to ask yourself, “Will this be harmful?”, you may want to double check with your doctor before you put it in your system.
You are trying to get health, not hurt, so pump up with something that is not going to damage your body.
Call us now at 1-800-655-6585 or click here for a free consultation with an experienced personal injury lawyer and find out how we can help you. We speak English and Spanish, and we look forward to providing advice for your case. No fee if no recovery.
About Michael PinesMichael Pines is a former insurance company attorney who specializes in car accident injury. While he was an insurance attorney, he learned from behind the scenes on how insurance companies work and how they decided to pay injured people. Now that he works against insurance companies, Michael's inside knowledge has resulted in significant benefits to his clients injured in car accidents.
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