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The Sacramento Bee reports:
Lori McClintock, wife of Rep. Tom McClintock, died in December after suffering “adverse effects” related to her consumption of the herbal supplement white mulberry leaf, a Sacramento County coroner’s report found.
The two-page report says the cause of death was “dehydration due to gastroenteritis due to adverse effects of white mulberry leaf ingestion.”
It noted that Lori McClintock “was a 61-year-old female who was found unresponsive in her locked residence by her husband. The day prior she had complaints of an upset stomach. An autopsy with toxicology testing confirmed the cause of death. There were no suspicious circumstances found.
Kaiser Health News reports:
It’s unclear from the autopsy report whether Lori McClintock took a dietary supplement containing white mulberry leaf, ate fresh or dried leaves, or drank them in a tea, but a “partially intact” white mulberry leaf was found in her stomach, according to the report.
McClintock’s death underscores the risks of the vast, booming market of dietary supplements and herbal remedies, which have grown into a $54 billion industry in the United States — one that both lawmakers and health care experts say needs more government scrutiny.
NBC News reports:
Tom McClintock has remained mostly silent about his wife’s death since he released a statement on Dec. 19, 2021, announcing it and gave a tribute to her at her Jan. 4 funeral. Until now, the cause of death had not been reported.
Tom McClintock, contacted multiple times by phone and email Wednesday, was not immediately available for comment.
At his wife’s funeral, McClintock told mourners that she was fine when he spoke with her the day before he returned. She had told a friend that “she was on a roll” at a new job she loved in a Sacramento real estate office, he said, and “she was carefully dieting.”
QAnon nutbags, as they always do, are claiming she died from the COVID vaccine.
Wife of U.S. Rep. Tom McClintock died after ingesting white mulberry leaf https://t.co/dSTDZn1Did
— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) August 25, 2022