The U.S. Food and Drugs Administration issued a warning cautioning people against consuming Healthy Life Chemistry dietary supplement as its contains two harmful anabolic steroids that are not mentioned in the product's ingredient list.
Healthy Life Chemistry by Purity First B-50 is a vitamin B dietary supplement. According to the FDA warning issued Friday, the product contains two anabolic steroids that are very harmful. They are methasterone, a controlled substance, and dimethazine. These substances haven't been mentioned in the product's ingredient label.
"Products marketed as a vitamin but which contain undisclosed steroids pose a real danger to consumers and are illegal," said Howard Sklamberg, director of the Office of Compliance in the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, in a press release. "The FDA is committed to ensuring that products marketed as vitamins and dietary supplements do not pose harm to consumers."
The governing body has already received 29 reports regarding the adverse effects of consuming Healthy Life Chemistry. Some of these effects include fatigue, muscle cramping, myalgia (muscle pain), abnormal laboratory findings for liver and thyroid function and cholesterol levels.
Among males, some of the adverse effects include impotence and low testosterone while females reported missing menstruation and abnormal hair growth after consuming the dietary supplement. FDA warned that any user experiencing such symptoms should get clinically checked immediately and file a report with the administration.
Other effects of consuming products with anabolic steroids include acute liver damage, blood lipid levels; increased risk of heart attack and stroke; masculinization of women; shrinkage of the testicles; breast enlargement; infertility in males and short stature in children.
The FDA also requested all health care providers to ask their patients about any dietary supplement they may be taking as they may have steroids or steroid-like substances.
