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Why green tea could be ruining your liver

“You need a liver transplant. This has to happen fast as you only have less than a week to live.” Jim received received this shocking news from his doctor three weeks after he and his wife noticed a slight change in his health. Jim McCants’ story ran on BBC news on October 2018.

Jim started taking green tea supplements to improve his health and weight but barely three months into this journey, the thing that promised him better health almost killed him and left him sickly and with a chronic disease.

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