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Nobody argues that natural juices are very useful drinks. But here is one of them which doctors have put in «the black list», it is a grapefruit juice. US health authorities have even begun to check all medical products for compatibility with it. They turned out too lethal cocktails.
Probably, the most well known was a story of a man’s death who for many years had been taking medicines for lowering cholesterol level – Liprimar. But then he started to drink 2 glasses of grapefruit juice a day and after short time doctors noticed problems with kidneys which had ended tragically.
His kidneys appeared to be “stuffed” with the protein formed at destruction of muscular tissues - the typical overdose of Liprimar and other similar medicines. Grapefruit juice sharply increases intestinal absorption, and part of a drug which earlier passed through a digestive system “en routeâ€?, was assimilated. As a result, there was an overdose.
Grapefruit juice can cause overdose of medicines for treatment of heart illnesses, hypertension, antibiotics, hormones and many-many other drugs.