Should You Worry About Mixing Supplements With Prescription Medication?
The emphasis and the hype are usually placed on the benefit of the supplement itself,...
Written by: Pippa Thackeray
Written on: July 8, 2025
Pippa is a content writer and qualified Nutritional Therapist (DipNT) creating research-based content with a passion for many areas of wellbeing, including hormonal health, mental health and digestive health.
As a contributor to The Healf Source, she regularly attends seminars and programmes on a plethora of contemporary health issues and modern research insights with a drive to never stop learning. In addition, interviewing experts and specialists across The Four Pillars: EAT, MOVE, MIND, SLEEP.
In her spare time, she is an avid swimmer, mindfulness and yoga lover, occasionally bringing a raw, honest approach to the topics she faces. You may also discover some personal accounts of eye-opening wellbeing experiences amidst the reality of a disorientating, and often conflicting, modern wellbeing space.
- 1. How to safely build a supplement routine around prescriptions
- 2. Supplements and prescription drugs: combinations worth checking twice
- 3. How interactions can affect drug metabolism
- 4. Spotlight on St John’s Wort
- 5. Grapefruit and valerian: a need for caution
- 6. P450 isn’t the only route drugs take
- 7. Don’t deplete yourself
- 8. Antibiotics: the dos and dont's
- 9. The contraceptive pill and supplement mistakes
- 10. Food, drink and the contraceptive pill
- 11. What the contraceptive pill takes away
- 12. Why mixing isn’t always a mistake
- 13. Other common interactions to be mindful of:
- 14. How to stay on top of your medication and supplement intake:
- 15. When to seek medical guidance regarding your supplement routine
- 16. Is your stack putting you at risk?
- 17. The takeaways
- 18. Look beyond the label
- 19. Reach out for supplement advice
