COUNTED ACROSS FORMULAS
Acute energy · Pre-workout
Both carry caffeine too: 75 mg and 150 mg. The engine adds up caffeine from every formula in your plan. From 200 mg a day you are told, and at 400 mg, the EFSA upper limit, the addition is blocked. Next to this one, Pre-workout alone takes you to 250 mg.
BLEEDING RISK FLAGGED
Anti-inflammatory & recovery
That formula carries 500 mg of curcumin. Ginkgo and curcumin both slow your platelets down, and our library only pairs them below 120 mg of ginkgo and 100 mg of curcumin, which these doses are not. The same goes for Systemic inflammation and Muscle damage (CK), which carry the same 500 mg. The rule reaches further than curcumin: it also covers the 100 mg of resveratrol in Oxidative cardiovascular and in Systemic inflammation, and the 15 mg of vitamin E in Liver. Ginkgo with resveratrol is a documented pair, flagged hard if you are on anticoagulants or antiplatelets. Any plan with two such ingredients is flagged for bleeding risk, and blocked if you are on anticoagulants.
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Not for everyone
Not for you if you are pregnant or breastfeeding, under 18, have heart disease or a symptomatic heart rhythm problem, haemophilia or another bleeding disorder, epilepsy or a history of seizures, an anxiety or panic disorder, reflux or a peptic ulcer, or an allergy to ginkgo. Do not take it with an anticoagulant — a vitamin K antagonist such as warfarin or acenocoumarol, or dabigatran, apixaban or heparin — or with an antiplatelet such as aspirin, clopidogrel or ticagrelor: ginkgo slows your platelets down, and our library rules that combination out rather than flagging it. It is also not recommended together with efavirenz. Ask a doctor first if you take NSAIDs, anticonvulsants, an MAO inhibitor, theophylline, lithium, clozapine, SSRIs or SNRIs, trazodone, sedatives or sleeping pills, nifedipine or another calcium-channel blocker, blood pressure or diabetes medication, thiazide diuretics, quinolone antibiotics, the contraceptive pill, beta-agonists or decongestants such as pseudoephedrine, or levodopa for Parkinson's disease; or if you have glaucoma, low blood pressure, liver or kidney disease, histamine intolerance or a cashew or pistachio allergy, or are in cancer treatment. Glaucoma is listed as a caffeine contraindication in our library at the level of a precaution, which is why it sits in this second list and the anxiety and the reflux sit in the first. Stop it at least two weeks before planned surgery. Caffeine can cause nervousness, insomnia and palpitations: keep your total from every source to no more than 400 mg a day. Do not exceed the dose, do not use it in place of a varied diet, and keep it out of reach of young children. The app asks before it ever suggests this one.
