Did You Know — do you care :) #3

updated: June 11.2013

 

 

1. New research has found that the number of drugs that interact badly with grapefruit juice—including some common blood pressure and cholesterol-lowering meds—has more than doubled since 2008 thanks to new drug formulations.
“Taking 1 tablet of certain medicines with a glass of grapefruit juice can be like taking 5 tables with water” says lead researcher David Bailey.
Ripped from the April 2013 Reader’s Digest article, “The fruit that meddles with med”.  David Bailey is a pharmacologist at the Lawson Health Research Institute in London, Ontario.