Q. Can I take turmeric containing products with blood thinners
A. In a trial in 2013 and the recent trial in 2024 many men were on a variety of blood blood thinners including warfarin, abixiban and drugs like rivaroxaban and dabigatran. No problems were reported. It would be sensible, if you are on these drugs, to look out for signs of excess bleeding, don’t exceed the RDA of yourphyto and if in doubt ask the doctor to measure your clotting levels
Q. Can Yourphyto be taken by diabetics?
A. Yes it can be taken by diabetics, more information on the benefit of pomegranate and diabetes, In fact, there are some research study which suggest it could lower excess glucoses levels
Q. Does Yourphyto have to be taken with food?
A. It doesn’t really matter but in the small number of users who previously reported some mild indigestion it disappeared if they then took it with food.
Q. Can broccoli extracts effect the thyroid
A. The are rare case reports that broccoli can contribute to lower thyroxine levels. This was only in the presence of marked iodine deficiency. Provided you have a diet which includes seafood, onions, nuts and seed this unlikely to be the case. If you are concerned take a well designed mineral supplement which includes iodine such as phytomineral.
Q. Can I take if I am pregnant or breastfeeding?
A. There is no evidence that turmeric, broccoli, pomegranate or green tea adversely affects pregnancy, although the safety of these supplements in pregnancy and lactation has not been established.
Q. Does Yourphyto interact with other drugs?
A. Like some other fruit juices, pomegranate has a potential interaction with some drugs. There is, therefore, a small potential risk of reducing the metabolism and thereby increasing serum levels of medicines such as warfarin, anti-hypertensives such as captopril and ramipril, or anti-convulsants such as carbamazepine. Individuals on warfarin or these blood pressure tablets are not excluded from taking yourphyto and no adverse changes in blood pressure or INR were reported in men taking ramipril or warfarin in the study, but it may be advisable to repeat a blood pressure and an INR test within two weeks of starting yourphyto.
Q. Could it be possible that yourphyto only affects PSA and not the underlying disease?
A. Despite the short falls of PSA as a screening tool many doctors regard it as an an extremely useful surrogate for disease status in response to treatment especially if the velocity or doubling time is considered not just a single measurement. In the study PSA levels had a 100% correlation with underlying changes on MRI.