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Monday's topic was Grapefruit, never the sweetest fruit treat to start the morning off.
I had forgotten the one liner that a London Drugs pharmacist told me to stay away from when taking my meds. Grapefruit! Wish I had that as an excuse as a youngster, but then I was independently healthy.
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Grapefruit is one of my favorite fruits. Incongruously I associate the sweet semi-tropical fruit with the most bitter part of winter. When I was growing up (on a hill farm in central Appalachia), we had crates of the big yellow citruses during winter–an annual gift from some unknown relative. ......
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..... Grapefruits are healthy fruits filled with vitamins, nutrients, antioxidants, and other possibly wholesome phytochemicals (to say nothing of fiber) however they also contain a chemical which inhibits the activity of a human metabolizing enzyme CYP3A4. This not-very-euphonically named enzyme allows the liver and the intestine to break down drugs–so grapefruit are potentially dangerous to people taking certain prescription medicines. According to pharmacologists, more than 40% of drugs can interact with grapefruit! This sort of thing is why biochemistry is so interesting and challenging! Maybe there is a rightful reason grapefruit should be called forbidden fruit…but until the doctor actively forbids it, I am going to go have some more…
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