Navigating supplements safely: Bioavailability, drug interactions, and root-cause physiology.

Step into any pharmacy or supermarket aisle, and you are surrounded by hundreds of generic vitamin formulations promising instant energy, immunity, or stress relief. However, taking supplements without understanding your specific physiology often leads to expensive waste, or worse, adverse interactions with prescribed medication. To use nutritional support effectively, we have to move past online trends and look at three core clinical factors: gastrointestinal absorption, metabolic cofactors, and pharmaceutical safety.