{"id":366634,"date":"2026-10-07T06:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T06:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/366634\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T06:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T06:44:09","slug":"phony-nyc-doctor-hit-with-upgraded-murder-charge-after-patient-died-from-trendy-anti-aging-injection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/366634\/","title":{"rendered":"Phony NYC doctor hit with upgraded murder charge after patient died from trendy anti-aging injection"},"content":{"rendered":"

The dodgy doctor accused of causing the death of a patient he injected with a trendy anti-aging treatment<\/a> over the summer has been charged with her murder, the NYPD announced Tuesday. <\/p>\n

Unlicensed Bronx spa operator Luis Rojas Cabrera<\/a>, 55, was slapped with the upgraded charge of depraved indifference murder after the city\u2019s medical examiner ruled the death of his patient, Elizabeth Baron, 27, a homicide in late September, cops said.<\/p>\n

Baron, a Bronx local, was allegedly killed after Rojas Cabrera accidentally injected her with air during a treatment of NAD+ at his Bereshit Lifestyle Center on July 19.<\/p>\n

Luis Rojas Cabrera has been charged with murder for the July death of his patient, Elizabeth Baron, 27. William C Lopez\/NY Post<\/p>\n

The young woman immediately went into cardiac arrest after the injection, which prompted Rojas Cabrera to admit to a police officer, \u201cI made a very big mistake,\u201d court documents allege.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The accused quack physician ran the Riverdale wellness center that offered \u201cnatural medicine\u201d and therapies as well as products geared toward \u201cmaking healthy living easy,\u201d according to its website.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Rojas Cabrera was previously charged with reckless endangerment<\/a> and unauthorized practice of a profession, while prosecutors awaited autopsy results to see if his injection directly caused Baron\u2019s death.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cAdministering NAD+ via an IV requires a prescription from a medical professional,\u201d Assistant District Attorney Ethan Reisbaum argued during Rojas Cabrera\u2019s initial arraignment in July, where he pleaded not guilty.<\/p>\n

Baron, 27, died after being injected with an anti-aging treatment at the Bereshit Lifestyle Center on July 19. Facebook\/Maria Carrasquilla<\/p>\n

The original charges weren\u2019t bail-eligible, meaning Rojas Cabrera had been free since that court date.<\/p>\n

When reached by The Post last month, the phony doc claimed medical examiners found air in Baron\u2019s heart not because of the injection, but because he had to perform manual CPR.<\/p>\n

He said he stopped the IV after Baron went into cardiac arrest and performed the life-saving measures \u2014 as did the medics who performed mechanical CPR after arriving on scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Rojas Cabrera told The Post the air found in Baron\u2019s heart (far right) could have been from CPR. Facebook\/Maria Carrasquilla<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I investigated with other doctors, they told me it was a possibility,\u201d he said. \u201cThe prolonged CPR can produce air in the heart chambers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rojas Cabrera added that underlying health conditions could have caused Baron\u2019s death.\u00a0However, the medical examiner concluded she died from a cardiac air embolism and didn\u2019t note any underlying conditions in the report.<\/p>\n

NAD+ is a molecule that is hyped in woo-woo health circles and celebrities for its supposed anti-aging properties.<\/p>\n

Famous models Kendall Jenner and Hailey Bieber once publicly crowed that they were devotees of the treatment, helping to fuel the craze over it.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The dodgy doctor accused of causing the death of a patient he injected with a trendy anti-aging treatment…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366635,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3283,1840,972,3742,131669,57,238,9,56,63,65,64,129,58],"class_list":["post-366634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-arrests","tag-death","tag-doctors","tag-health-and-wellness-products","tag-medical-mishaps","tag-metro","tag-murders","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-the-bronx","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}