Drug Interactions

NutriScan’s proprietary Drug Report enables health practitioners to review and report on concise summaries of known drug-nutrient interactions and ensure suitable action is taken. Equipped with our PharmaShield™ service, you’ll be able to rapidly identify and correct for any nutrient depletions caused by your patient’s prescriptions and over the counter medications.

To add to our concerns and considerations as health professionals there is evolving evidence in the past few years that many prescription drugs cause the depletion of certain critical vitamins and minerals in our bodies that can seriously impair our future health. Further to these concerns, there is a growing body of research indicating that certain nutrients actually improve the actions of some drugs, minimizing adverse drug reactions and enhancing health benefits. In 1978, doctors wrote 4.4 million prescriptions for cholesterol lowering drugs. By 1999, the number had soared to 92.2 million - most of them for statin drugs like Lipitor. How many of those doctors were aware that these drugs deplete Coenzyme Q-10? If they did know, they could have at least supplemented with this critical nutrient.

NutriScan ’s thousands of drugs and 165 specific drug categories represent the most current review of drug-nutrient interactions available today, and allow you to benefit directly when your patient’s participate.

Our Targeted Health Assessment system, ensures:

• your patients are benefiting from the latest information on both complimentary and adverse drug-nutrient interactions.
• actual nutrient doses are safe and consistent with those studied with any medications your patients are using.

NutriScan^® seeks to address these potential problems by:

• blocking the selection of certain nutrients that are contraindicated by certain health conditions
• blocking overdosing of nutrients
• blocking certain drug-nutrient interactions
• defining what nutrients are depleted by certain prescriptions and thus should be supplemented
• ensuring proven drug-nutrient synergies are noted and included
  

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