Cauliflower + Atorvastatin Calcium

Cauliflower has 186 moderate known drug interactions in our database — Atorvastatin Calcium isn’t one of them. If you take anything else, check it against the full list below.

We haven’t checked that one against Cauliflower yet — ask our pharmacists directly.

Covers the 2,830 medications we’ve checked against Cauliflower. Pick one to open its full report.

These two come up together because they touch the same health topic — not because they do the same job. Atorvastatin Calcium is a prescription medicine with approved uses on its FDA label. Cauliflower is a supplement: what follows is what researchers have looked at it for, and how strong that evidence is.

Atorvastatin Calcium is prescribed for: Atorvastatin is used alongside a healthy diet to lower LDL ("bad") cholesterol, triglycerides (blood fats), and other harmful lipids, while raising HDL ("good") cholesterol. It treats primary hyperlipidemia (high cholesterol), mixed dyslipidemia (mixed abnormal blood fats), hypertriglyceridemia (high triglycerides), and inherited conditions such as heterozygous and homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia — including in children aged 10 and older. Beyond cholesterol control, atorvastatin is used to reduce the risk of heart attack, stroke, revascularization procedures, and angina (chest pain) in adults with coronary heart disease or multiple risk factors for it — including adults with type 2 diabetes who have risk factors for heart disease even without a confirmed heart disease diagnosis.

Cauliflower has been studied for:

• Diabetes studied, not established Cauliflower has been studied for this. Natural Medicines rates the evidence: Insufficient Reliable Evidence To Rate Read what the research shows

  Cauliflower for diabetes

  Population research suggests that higher intake of cruciferous vegetables, including broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, and Brussels sprouts, is not associated with a reduced risk of developing type 2 diabetes in women.

  1 source cited

  1. 26187. Liu S, Serdula M, Janket SJ, et al. A prospective study of fruit and vegetable intake and the risk of type 2 diabetes in women. Diabetes Care 2004;27(12):2993-6. PubMed ↗
• Stroke studied, not established Cauliflower has been studied for this. Natural Medicines rates the evidence: Insufficient Reliable Evidence To Rate Read what the research shows

  Cauliflower for stroke

  Population research has found that higher intake of cauliflower and other cruciferous vegetables is associated with a 32% reduced risk of ischemic stroke.

  1 source cited

  1. 7394. Joshipura KJ, Ascherio A, Manson JE, et al. Fruit and vegetable intake in relation to risk of ischemic stroke. JAMA 1999;282:1233-39. PubMed ↗

Effectiveness ratings and the research summaries above are the verbatim record from the Natural Medicines database, which grades evidence from “Effective” down to “Insufficient Reliable Evidence To Rate”. A rating below the top of that scale means researchers have looked at it — not that it works, and never that it can stand in for a prescribed medicine. Do not stop or replace Atorvastatin Calcium on your own; if you are taking Cauliflower for the same health topic, tell your prescriber, especially if the medicine is being adjusted to a target.

These are real questions from readers, answered by the pharmacists at HelloPharmacist — written by a person, not generated from a database. Each one covers Cauliflower or Atorvastatin Calcium, not necessarily both, but if one is close to what you were about to ask it will usually go further than a database entry can:

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This page covers Cauliflower only. If you take other supplements — a multivitamin, a sleep aid, something for joints — the Atorvastatin Calcium page lists 181 supplements it has a documented interaction with, worst first, each one explained.

The most serious there right now: Activated Charcoal (major), Apple (major), Beer (major), Grapefruit (major) and Green Tea (major).

Open the Atorvastatin Calcium interaction page ›

We hold 1,705 real supplement products containing Cauliflower, each one broken down to its full ingredient list — and combination products often carry several ingredients besides Cauliflower. Even though Cauliflower itself has no known interaction with Atorvastatin Calcium, another ingredient on your label might. Find your product and we’ll check every ingredient on its label:

Out of every supplement and medication people look up on HelloPharmacist, here is where these two land this week — and which way each has been moving.

Position among everything looked up on this site, not a measure of how commonly either one is used or how important it is. A supplement can climb this list because of a news story. It counts every request to the page, automated ones included, and nothing here identifies anyone.

Natural Medicines records Atorvastatin Calcium as a medicine that can lower these. This is not an interaction with Cauliflower — it is a separate effect of the medicine, and it is a reason some people are advised to supplement rather than to avoid one:

• COENZYME Q10›
• L-CARNITINE›

Read the full Atorvastatin Calcium nutrient depletion report ›

Depletion records come from the licensed Natural Medicines database. Do not start a supplement on the strength of this page — ask your pharmacist or doctor whether it applies to you.