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Everyday Sauce Product Causes Brain Damage In Woman
This dangerous 'cleanse' is making its rounds on the internet and doctors are urging people to refrain. Although it's a very common ingredient in most kitchens - in high doses, it can be lethal.
Maxim Sorokopud
12.14.18

Medical quackery has existed for thousands of years. But this latest “miracle cure” ruined a person’s life forever.

The idea of detoxing is definitely appealing.

Who wouldn’t want to cleanse their insides from all the gunk that comes from eating junk food and so on?

But people have to be careful when attempting a detox. It can have long-lasting and even permanent consequences.

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For example, a woman recently attempted to follow a new “miracle cleanse” of the colon, only to end up with irreversible brain injuries.

The food item that she used was soy sauce.

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It may sound weird, but drinking lots of soy sauce has become an online fad in recent years. People claim that drinking up to a liter of it completely cleanses the colon.

It is admittedly very difficult to drink a whole liter of soy sauce, with its extremely strong taste. But some people are determined to do it for the sake of their innards.

But as any doctor will tell you, too much salt is lethal.

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And you don’t need to be a genius to realize that soy sauce is filled with salt. In fact, 20% of soy sauce is made up of salt.

But who is this woman who drank so much soy sauce?

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This story has been recounted by Dr. Bernard, who is a medical professor at the University of Illinois.

He states that even before the near-fatal soy sauce intake, the woman in this story had mental difficulties.

She had been diagnosed with untreatable paranoid schizophrenia.

For six months, she’d been on a diet of only white bread and tuna.

This extreme diet caused an iron and vitamin deficiency, making her extremely weak. Her husband tried to encourage her to change her diet, to no success.

However, she became suspicious that the government had poisoned her. She looked up her symptoms online and discovered an article that said that the only solution was to cleanse herself with soy sauce.

One day, after her work, she stayed after everyone else had left. She pulled out a large bottle, soy sauce.

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Determined to cure herself, she drank and drank the soy sauce.

After drinking down the soy sauce, the problems started. She felt pins and needles in her hands and legs. Her heart started beating rapidly.

Panicking, she rushed to her car and tried to drive home.

But on the drive, her stomach began to cramp with a pain stronger than anything she’d ever experienced before.

Eventually, she arrived home. Her vision started to blur. She lost her balance.

Finally, she collapsed onto the ground.

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The noise alerted her husband, who was able to find her and called for an ambulance.

As the woman was being taken to the hospital, her heart stopped beating, but the paramedics were able to revive her.

When the doctors examined her, they discovered that she had five times a lethal dose of sodium in her blood. In fact, she had consumed so much salt that it would be equivalent to eating 10 pounds of bacon.

But the doctors were able to save her, at a terrible price.

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They infused her with salt-free, sugar-heavy water, to dilute the extreme levels of sodium in her blood.

After four days of being in a coma, the woman woke up. She could no longer move, speak or swallow due to the extent of the damage of her brain cells.

The good news, for most people, is that the actions of the woman in this story are almost impossible to duplicate.

Anyone who tried to drink a liter of soy sauce should end up vomiting it out. There was something abnormal in the woman that caused her to disconnect her body’s impulses from her actions.

Dr. Bernard suspects that she had a gastrointestinal problem that meant that she didn’t feel the negative effects of the soy sauce until it was too late.

This story is an extreme case of a sham cure causing harm.

But it does show that everyone should be careful with what they read online.

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