Gary Null Gets a Taste of His Own Medicine
A controversial alternative health guru is suing after a taste of his own medicine nearly killed him.
Gary Null - described on quackwatch.org as "one of the nation's leading promoters of dubious treatment
for serious disease" - claims the manufacturer of Gary Null's Ultimate Power Meal overloaded the
supplements with Vitamin D.
The buff "Joy of Juicing" author, whose products include Red Stuff Powder and Gary Null's Heavenly
Hair Cleaner, claims he suffered kidney damage and was left bloodied and in intense pain from two daily
servings of the supplement.
"Null continued to take the Ultimate Power Meal, all the while thinking that it would help him, and relieve
his condition; instead, it made him worse," the suit says.
The suit filed in Manhattan Supreme Court accuses Triarco Industries of causing Null's "near-death
experience" by botching the testing and manufacturing of the supplement.
Null, who also owns an eponymous food shop on the upper West Side, contends he was hit last December
with "excruciating fatigue" that left him unable to walk and forced him to fly back to New York and
cancel lectures, counseling and filming.
"Null would later be told that if he had not flown back to New York and seen his doctor, then he could
have died within a short period of time," the suit says.
"Null then sequestered himself and fasted, only consuming massive amounts of water as he was told
there was no medical treatment to lower the amount of Vitamin D in his system."
The suit accuses Triarco of inadequate safety testing that led to six consumers being hospitalized with
severe kidney damage. A company representative did not return calls.
"Null, in the midst of all this, while he was suffering in bed, had dozens of his customers calling him, along
with condemning and threatening him," the suit says. "In fact, they threatened that they would never buy
any product of his ever again."
A lawyer for Null declined to comment, but did say the tainted supplies of the Ultimate Power Meal have
been pulled from store shelves.
The suit says Null, 65, is still suffering the effects of too much Vitamin D.
"Even now, Null's condition is questionable as he continues to occasionally urinate blood," the suit says.
"Unfortunately, there is no medical treatment for this as it is a matter of waiting, watching and
observing what develops next."
jmartinez@edit.nydailynews.com
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A controversial alternative health guru is suing after a taste of his own medicine nearly killed him.
Gary Null - described on quackwatch.org as "one of the nation's leading promoters of dubious treatment
for serious disease" - claims the manufacturer of Gary Null's Ultimate Power Meal overloaded the
supplements with Vitamin D.
The buff "Joy of Juicing" author, whose products include Red Stuff Powder and Gary Null's Heavenly
Hair Cleaner, claims he suffered kidney damage and was left bloodied and in intense pain from two daily
servings of the supplement.
"Null continued to take the Ultimate Power Meal, all the while thinking that it would help him, and relieve
his condition; instead, it made him worse," the suit says.
The suit filed in Manhattan Supreme Court accuses Triarco Industries of causing Null's "near-death
experience" by botching the testing and manufacturing of the supplement.
Null, who also owns an eponymous food shop on the upper West Side, contends he was hit last December
with "excruciating fatigue" that left him unable to walk and forced him to fly back to New York and
cancel lectures, counseling and filming.
"Null would later be told that if he had not flown back to New York and seen his doctor, then he could
have died within a short period of time," the suit says.
"Null then sequestered himself and fasted, only consuming massive amounts of water as he was told
there was no medical treatment to lower the amount of Vitamin D in his system."
The suit accuses Triarco of inadequate safety testing that led to six consumers being hospitalized with
severe kidney damage. A company representative did not return calls.
"Null, in the midst of all this, while he was suffering in bed, had dozens of his customers calling him, along
with condemning and threatening him," the suit says. "In fact, they threatened that they would never buy
any product of his ever again."
A lawyer for Null declined to comment, but did say the tainted supplies of the Ultimate Power Meal have
been pulled from store shelves.
The suit says Null, 65, is still suffering the effects of too much Vitamin D.
"Even now, Null's condition is questionable as he continues to occasionally urinate blood," the suit says.
"Unfortunately, there is no medical treatment for this as it is a matter of waiting, watching and
observing what develops next."
jmartinez@edit.nydailynews.com
Read more:
http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/04/28/2010-04-28_my_health_mix_almost_killed_me_supp
lement_nearly_fatal_sez_suit_vs_manufacturer.html#ixzz0mm4CwD89
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