{"id":715509,"date":"2026-06-04T23:17:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T23:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/715509\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T23:17:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T23:17:13","slug":"tell-your-gp-about-these-over-the-counter-supplements-lifestyle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/715509\/","title":{"rendered":"Tell your GP about these over-the-counter supplements | Lifestyle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you take these over-the-counter supplements? You should tell your GP, says Dr Amir Khan.<\/p>\n<p>Posting on Instagram on Sunday (31 May), the popular television doctor warned that \u201cnatural doesn\u2019t automatically mean harmless\u201d, as he said magnesium, turmeric, St. John&#8217;s wort, collagen and herbal remedies all needed to be flagged to your doctor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you&#8217;re taking regular <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/medication\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">medication<\/a>, don&#8217;t forget to tell your doctor which supplements you also take because sometimes the interaction we&#8217;re worried about isn&#8217;t between two medications. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt can be between medicine and something you thought was harmless, like a supplement.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Do you take these over-the-counter supplements? You should tell your GP, says Dr Amir Khan. Posting on Instagram&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":715510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[49,48,84,395,258894,258893],"class_list":["post-715509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nutrition","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-nutrition","tag-optamatchid2562254","tag-optauuid51i8bgm45ruiglvkbgnyb6ihg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=715509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/715510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}