Question: Dear Dr. ZAC, I have taken blood pressure medicines for years without any problems – but I have recently read that I love ordinary spices and often use them as ginger and black pepper can interfere with all types of medicines.
Now I am starting to wonder: have my daily meals been affecting my media all the time? Or am I now just being paranoid to think that my spice rack is doing more harm than well? – Warwick, 48, Canberra
Reply: Dear Warwick, I have some spicy news for you – you are not paranoid. You may have been cooking a storm, but some of your pantry favorites may have been quietly stirring trouble in your bloodstream.
This is one of those alarming but attractive blind medical points that very few people talk about. While your spice rack may seem innocent, the truth is that many daily spices pack a serious pharmacological handful. That’s right – your humble curry dust can be of the moonlight as a biochemist, shaking your enzyme level as you just try to enjoy the dinner.
Let’s break this.
Black Pepper: Enzima’s abductor
Did you know that the little pleasure of the pepper mill? After that spicy pop is pepperin, a composition that slows down the enzymes responsible for disrupting medication. If you are in medicines like propranolol or phenytoin, this can result in high levels of medication in your system. While small quantities are usually safe, regular consumption of 2-4 spoons (yes, tablespoon!) Black pepper or exhibiting high-dose pepper supplements can be abducted with your medication in a large way.
Garlic: Double Blood Pressure Agent
Garlic is known to help lower blood pressure – but for people already in blood pressure medications, this can become a double. Many garlic can make your BP fall too low, leaving you dizzying, pale or worse. It also acts as a thinner blood, making it a dangerous companion to warfarin or aspirin.
Ginger, turmeric and friends: bleeders
Ginger and turmeric are the golden children of wellness influencers, but they also maintain hidden risks. Saffron curcumin and ginger ginger can dilute your blood, interfere with the mode of adoption of medicines, and even raise levels of immune oppressors such as tacrolimus. If you are in blood thinners, these spices can inadvertently overload the effects of your medicines – and not in a good way.
Cinnamon, cloves and licorice: Silent Sabotators
Cassia Cinnamon, the type most commonly found in your local supermarket, contains the couter, which can damage the liver in large quantities. The cloves contain eugenol, which can also affect the liver and interfere with blood clotting. Licorice? That sweet ingredient of small herbal tea can increase blood pressure and cause fluid retention – eventually not ideal when you are in antihypertensive.
So should we all be terrified by Tacos now?
Absolutely not. The kitchen doses-it will normally sprinkle in a rash or curry-are almost always safe. It is when people start adding supplements, drinking latte turmeric.
Your best protection? Do a conversation with your GP or pharmacist if you are with long -term medicines. Ask if any of your plants and spices can interfere. And please, do not scare and discard your spice rack in the bin – just use your herbs with knowledge and care.
Because while spices can heal, strengthen and flavor our lives, they got the wrong way, they can also sabotage our health in silence, slowly … and without realizing it.
So Warwick, your instincts were on. Your spice rack may be confused with med -but now that you know, you can eat wisely and season with meaning.
Stay healthy (and with mild experience) – Dring
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