Ten years ago, when Pieter Cohen was working as a physician in Somerville, Massachusetts, he started to notice a trend among his patients: some of them were coming into his clinic with unexplained liver failure, kidney failure, panic attacks, and palpitations. Doctors couldn’t figure out what was going on.
So Cohen, a professor at Harvard Medical School, did a little digging around and soon discovered that these illnesses seemed to be linked to rainbow diet pills: weight-loss supplements and powders that were coming into the United States from Brazil. Cohen analyzed the contents of the pills and found out that they often contained antidepressants and thyroid hormones, among other pharmaceuticals.
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