Do You Drink Apple Cider Vinegar in the Morning? Do Not Mix It With THESE Medicines or Herbs

Apple cider vinegar—the fermented juice from green apples—is a powerhouse of several vitamins, minerals, and acids used traditionally for various medical reasons. It helps regulate your blood sugar levels and weight and also improves your skin. However, it also can interact with a few medications you may be taking daily.

Apple cider is acidic and can be extremely dangerous if combined with a few medicines. A few of these are:

While apple cider vinegar can help lower blood sugar levels in those with diabetes, studies say it slows down gastric emptying and improves how well your body absorbs carbohydrates, which further affects blood sugar levels.

And so, taking apple cider vinegar with other medications that lower your blood sugar increases your risk for hypoglycemia or dangerously low blood sugar levels. Examples of blood sugar-lowering medications include:

• Metformin
• Glipizide
• Insulin
• Ozempic or Wegovy

Experts say hypoglycemia occurs when your blood sugar drops below 70 milligrams per decilitre, making you feel weak, have an extremely fast heart rate, sweating, hunger, confusion, passing out, and even seizures.

This herb from the Equisetum plant is packed with antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. It helps remove fluids from the body, treat urinary tract infections, and strengthen your bones. However, it causes low potassium levels as well, so do not take apple cider vinegar along with it.

Also known as water pills, these treat your heart and blood vessel conditions and help you get rid of extra fluid which may cause inflammation and bloating. Diuretics help pass out excess water and electrolytes like sodium and potassium through your urine. But if you pair it with apple cider vinegar, you can suffer from hypokalemia – or low potassium levels.

According to doctors, you can have hypokalaemia if your potassium levels go below 3.5 millimoles per liter (mmol/L) of blood. Symptoms include:

• Confusion
• Fatigue
• Muscle cramps
• Muscle weakness
• Heart palpitations
• Laxatives

According to doctors, if you are taking laxatives—medications that help promote bowel movements—for treating constipation, then stay away from apple cider vinegar.

Laxatives increase movement in the intestines and decrease how much water your body absorbs from your bowel. And so, taking certain laxatives and apple cider vinegar together can increase your risk for low potassium levels, also causing hypokalemia.

A few herbs, like cardiac glycoside and its supplements that treat heart conditions like atrial fibrillation or heart failure, are extremely potent. Doctors say these are related to the prescription drug digoxin and have similar side effects. And so, taking it along with apple cider vinegar causes dangerous side effects like toxicity related to low potassium levels.

Licorice root is an herbal product used in food and taken as a supplement, which helps with conditions like digestive issues, menopause symptoms, and infections. Licorice, when taken for a long time, increases your blood pressure and lowers potassium levels.

However, taking both licorice and apple cider vinegar together increases your risk for hypokalemia.

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