
Jazmin Garza 20 year old gym goer, left fighting for life as organs shut down after drinking popular energy drink, Ghost during work-out.
A 20-year-old gym-goer was left fighting for her life after consuming a popular energy drink and going into cardiac arrest along with her organs shutting down, while working out.
Jazmin Garza of Texas, was finishing her weighted deadlifts alongside her partner, Isaac Ayala, at a Des Moines, Iowa, on November 22, when she began feeling light-headed and dizzy.
The fitness enthusiast collapsed on the floor and started suffering from a seizure shortly after she consumed one-third of a can of Ghost.

Did caffeinated energy drink trigger health episode?
Her boyfriend raced over to her and franticly performed CPR after her heart had stopped beating. Medics rushed to the site and shocked her heart to restart. The episode led to Garza enduring four cardiac arrests, with her heart-stopping for five minutes at the longest.
After many procedures and doctors placing a defibrillator in her chest, Garza woke up. However, when doctors tested her, they didn’t find any cause for her sudden health incident.
The 20 year old survived the near-death experience and was discharged from the hospital two weeks later, the dailymail reported. Nevertheless, doctors remain unsure what caused the seizure, with Jazmin Garza now saying that she believes the caffeinated drink most likely led to her organs shutting down.
‘I don’t usually drink caffeinated drinks at all. I hadn’t been to the gym for a while and wanted to have a really good workout so had a third of an energy drink. I hadn’t had this type of energy drink before,’ Garza told the dailymail.
Adding, ‘I was very panicked waking up in the hospital and being told that my heart had stopped.’
Jazmin said she has no family history with heart issues along with not having previous health issues prior to the gym episode.
In the months since her ordeal, Garza suspects that the energy drink could have triggered a medical episode, together with an unknown heart condition.
‘Our best guess is that I’ve always had this but just never paid mind to it. When I’ve had palpitations in the past, I’ve just thought it was anxiety or something. I don’t think the energy drink was the main cause. I think it was a contributory factor for everything to go wrong. I’ll definitely be staying away from energy drinks now,’ the 20 year old explained.
The popular energy drink features 200mg of caffeine, which is just over double the amount of what is in two cups of coffee. Ghost is marketed to adults. Its advertisement states that it is ‘only intended for persons 18 years or older.’
Energy drinks in general do come with risks if you drink an excessive amount. They have been linked to cardiac arrests, colon cancer and mental health conditions.
According to Isaac, who set up a GoFundMe to help cover Garza’s medical expenses, she was put in an ECMO machine to keep her blood oxygenated. She also needed dialysis as her kidneys were failing.