Such is the case of Ryan Wilson, an aspiring plumber whose toes and fingertips were amputated after a London drug trial for the experimental TGN1412 went horribly wrong.

Of the six men who were injected with TGN1412 last spring and hospitalized, Wilson's health suffered the most:

He remained in a coma for three weeks and several of his vital organs failed at some point. The best outcome Wilson could hope for someday: Walking without crutches or pain, a simple thing most us take for granted.

The tragedy of this 20-year-old's story illustrates why you should normally always want to seek a safer, natural option first. How many times has a supplement or natural therapy ever caused the type of damage that this young man has to go through for the rest of his life?