it was the supplement gold rush in a place where natural wellness was king.

Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1989. In a tiny northern step-child of a bureau, we meet an ambitious junior reporter named Tamar Stieber, out to prove herself as a serious journalist who’s making up for lost time after leaving a messy marriage. On a day like any other, in the midst of dead-end, small-town follow-ups, she’s assigned a so-called throwaway story that will change the course of her life forever: three women, all seemingly healthy, suddenly stricken with a “mystery virus” with no indication of what it could be or how they got it.

After exhaustive testing, the women’s symptoms of intense muscle spasms and fatigue, weakness, and nausea, were waved off as early menopause, stress, and food poisoning.

But something was off about this case. Tamar could feel it.

After convincing her hard-nosed veteran bureau chief to let her dig further, she uncovered what would become one of the biggest dietary supplement scandals in American history.

This is the story behind the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting that exposes the truth about one of the biggest industries in the world and how that industry manipulates the public for profit.

Based on actual events.