About Sara

Who I am

Hi there! I'm Sara, a licensed pharmacist based in Italy with a master's degree in Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Technology (CTF), former competitive rhythmic gymnast, travel blogger and lifestyle content creator. My work brings together the parts of life I love most: discovering beautiful places, taking care of body and mind, expressing personal style, and sharing it all in a way that feels honest, feminine and real.

I am responsible for the health section of this site. The articles explain general health questions through a pharmacist's perspective, with links to the guidance behind the practical advice. The editorial policy explains how sources, corrections and recorded reviews are presented.

What that background actually means here

A CTF degree is the chemistry-and-pharmacology side of pharmacy: how a medicine is made, what it does in the body, how it interacts with other medicines, and how a product is regulated before it reaches a shelf. Registration with the Ordine is what allows that training to be practised professionally in Italy.

In practice, that shapes what I choose to write about. I am most useful on the questions a pharmacist is actually asked: whether an over-the-counter medicine suits a particular person, how to read an excipients list or a supplement label, why two products contain the same active ingredient, what a leaflet means, and when a symptom needs a doctor rather than a purchase.

I do not diagnose, I do not give personal medical advice through this site, and I do not publish treatment recommendations for individuals. Where a topic needs a clinician, the article says so.

How the health articles are written

• A pharmacist review date, where shown, refers to the recorded review. Later editorial corrections are identified in the article; they do not by themselves represent a new pharmacist review. Publication dates describe when a page first appeared.
• For factual claims, the articles link to relevant sources — AIFA and the Ministero della Salute for Italian regulatory and supply questions, NHS, NICE, EMA, WHO, NIH and peer-reviewed literature where relevant. Product leaflets and specific guidance should be read in their country and clinical context.
• Where guidance differs between countries, the article says so rather than quietly using whichever is easier to source. Paracetamol's maximum daily dose is a good example: it is not the same in the UK and in Italy, and the number that applies to you is the one in the leaflet of the box you are holding.
• Where the evidence is weak or has changed, that is stated. Some standard advice — paracetamol for acute back pain, for instance — no longer matches what the trials found.

Sport, and where the fitness writing comes from

Before pharmacy, I was a competitive rhythmic gymnast. Years of it — the training load, the flexibility work, the injuries, and the particular experience of being sore in ways that turn out to be normal and sore in ways that do not.

That experience informs the training questions I choose to explore. The pharmacy perspective helps separate comfort, recovery and medicine safety, while the research puts individual experience in context. Effects on training adaptation depend on the medicine, dose and situation, so the articles explain those limits.

Travel and lifestyle

The travel articles come from my own trips, with the footage on my channel. When I update one, I separate two things: what the trip itself was, and the practical information as it stands now — opening arrangements, booking systems and access rules change, and a guide written from a three-year-old memory can send you somewhere with the wrong ticket. Where a detail affects a decision, the article links the official source so you can confirm it.

Beauty and lifestyle posts are routines and preferences, and I try to keep the pharmacist's distinction visible: what is evidence, what is a product I happen to like, and which of the two you are reading.

Corrections

If something here is wrong, out of date, or misleading, tell me and I will fix it and note the change. You can reach me through the contact page. That applies especially to the health articles, where being corrected is more useful than being consistent.

Elsewhere

I also publish video versions of much of this on @bysaraofficial, and post on Instagram and TikTok. The articles are not transcripts — they carry the sources, the tables and the practical detail that do not survive being said out loud.