11/06/2026
True or false: all healthy foods are safe to eat with all medications.
False.
Grapefruit is healthy. It has vitamin C. It is fruit. But it interacts with over 85 medications — including transplant medications, HIV treatment, cholesterol drugs, and blood pressure medication.
Vitamin K is healthy. But if you're on warfarin, it can work directly against your blood thinner.
Protein is healthy. But if you have chronic kidney disease, a high-protein diet puts dangerous stress on your kidneys.
And a leafy green vegetable used in Nigerian cooking — nutritious, cultural, generations old — was quietly making a kidney patient worse because nobody told his wife it interacted with his medication.
Healthy food and safe-with-your-medication food are not always the same thing.
This is the conversation we had this week on When Food Meets Medicine with Dr. Ugomma Okorogo — family medicine physician, public health specialist, and nutrition coach.
🎙️ New episode out now. Link in bio.