A 20-year-old gym-goer was left fighting for her life after she consumed a popular energy drink and then went into cardiac arrest while working out.
Jazmin Garza was finishing her weighted deadlifts alongside her boyfriend, Isaac Ayala, when she began feeling light-headed and dizzy in late November.
She had just drank drank one-third of a can of Ghost, a caffeinated energy drink, and sat down to steady herself when she collapsed on the floor and started to have a seizure.
Isaac rushed over to find Jazmin’s heart had stopped beating and she was no longer breathing.
He began performing CPR before paramedics arrived and shocked her heart to restart it.
Jazmin, who lives in Texas but was in Iowa at the time, was told she went into cardiac arrest multiple times – and at one point her heart stopped for five minutes.
Each time, oxygen was cut off from her brain and organs. Her kidneys, lungs and heart were extremely damaged and she was placed on life support to aid her recovery.
Doctors told Jazmin’s family ‘she was going to need a miracle to come back to us – and be the same Jazmin we knew.’
