{"id":476498,"date":"2026-02-13T03:36:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T03:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/476498\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T03:36:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T03:36:18","slug":"former-biote-employee-alleges-the-companys-sleep-supplement-caused-liver-damage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/476498\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Biote employee alleges the company\u2019s sleep supplement caused liver damage"},"content":{"rendered":"

A former employee of an Irving-based hormone therapy and supplements company has filed a lawsuit, alleging that one of the company\u2019s sleep supplements caused serious liver damage to him and his wife. <\/p>\n

Christopher and Mary Pat Sharon filed a lawsuit against Biote Medical on Monday evening, in Dallas County court. The couple raised concerns that other people may have been harmed by the supplement, too.<\/p>\n

The online court record on Tuesday afternoon did not yet show any formal response from Biote. Representatives of Biote also did not respond to requests for comment on Tuesday. <\/p>\n

The Sharons say in their lawsuit filing that they took Biote\u2019s \u201cDeep Sleep\u201d supplement as directed. Around 2021, after taking the supplement, they allege that they both began to have symptoms of liver damage, requiring doctor\u2019s visits for both of them and a liver biopsy for Mary Pat Sharon.<\/p>\n

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In late 2021, the filing says, Biote discontinued the sleep supplement and released a reformulated version, called \u201cBest Night Sleep.\u201d The filing says the company did not issue any type of notice to the public about the previous version of the supplement. Christopher Sharon, who is not a physician, also did not immediately connect the supplement to his and his wife\u2019s health issues.<\/p>\n

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This file photo shows Biote’s Irving office.<\/p>\n

Over the course of the next couple years, Christopher Sharon became concerned that the original version of the supplement may have been dangerous, the filing says, based on his own experience and reports from other consumers. <\/p>\n

By 2023, Christopher Sharon \u2014 who worked at Biote at the time but has since been terminated \u2014 raised his concerns internally, according to the lawsuit.<\/p>\n

The company allegedly did not address or substantively respond to his concerns.<\/p>\n

\u201cMr. Sharon became increasingly convinced,\u201d the suit says, \u201cthat the reformulation of Deep Sleep was related to the safety concerns associated with the original product.\u201d<\/p>\n

Christopher Sharon was terminated from Biote in mid-2025. One of his attorneys, Bill Brewer, said the company pointed to a restructuring as the reason for the termination.<\/p>\n

Brewer said Christopher Sharon is suing now \u2014 as opposed to before his termination \u2014 after trying and failing to hold the company accountable internally.<\/p>\n

\u201cMr. Sharon never felt he got an adequate explanation as to \u2026 what the company was doing (and) whether the company discontinued the Deep Sleep product as a result of others reporting the same problems that he and his wife experienced,\u201d Brewer said.<\/p>\n

The Brewer law firm<\/a> has sued Biote before. <\/p>\n

The firm represented Biote\u2019s founder, Gary Donovitz, in a 2022 lawsuit against the company. In the suit, Donovitz alleged he was deceived into agreeing to a merger deal<\/a> to take the company public \u2014 a deal that, he said, turned out to be a \u201cget-rich-quick scheme<\/a>\u201d that diluted his ownership and cost him millions.<\/p>\n

In 2024, Biote settled with Donovitz<\/a> and with Donovitz\u2019s ex-wife<\/a>, also represented by the Brewer firm. The two settlement agreements totaled more than $130 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former employee of an Irving-based hormone therapy and supplements company has filed a lawsuit, alleging that one…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[64,63,137,5266,138201,532,165853],"class_list":{"0":"post-476498","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nutrition","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-health-care","12":"tag-irving","13":"tag-nutrition","14":"tag-science-and-medicine"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}