Squeeze, please.It would seem to me that instead of looking to minimize the effect of grapefruit grapefruit, pomelo (pŏm`əlō), or pummelo (pum`məlō), citrus fruit (Citrus paradisi) of the family Rutaceae (orange family). juice in slowing the metabolism and elimination of drugs, one could cut drug dosages by taking advantage of it ("Nabbed: Culprit An individual who has been formally charged with a criminal offense but who has not yet been tried and convicted. Culprit is a colloquial rather than a legal term and is commonly applied to someone who is guilty of a minor degree of moral reprehensibility. of grapefruit juice--drug interaction" SN: 5/20/06, p. 317). Grapefruit juice costs less than any drug and has far fewer possible side effects Side effects Effects of a proposed project on other parts of the firm. . This could only benefit the patient by lowering drug exposure and costs. SHMUEL ENGELSOHN, JERUSALEM, ISRAEL "This is probably not a good strategy," says researcher Paul B. Watkins of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a public, coeducational, research university located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States. Also known as The University of North Carolina, Carolina, North Carolina, or simply UNC . Both the ingredients in juice and people's reactions to them are too variable to guide a precise reduction in drug doses. |
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