I recently learned that compounds in grapefruit juice called furanocouramins increase the blood concentration of both oxycodone and oxymorphone, and in half the time than without grapefruit juice.
Know what that means? The grapefruit juice increases the potency of your normal dose.
THIS IS LIFE-THREATENING.
Grapefruit already interacts with many medications, but this is dangerous. You could overdose. You could die.
Save a Spoonie.
Please pass this on. 💙
The same is true of heart and blood pressure medication.
Here’s a closed-captioned video from a couple years ago that explains the biology of it all:
Gosh darn it, @staff! This video did have captions visible when watched on YouTube (and when it was in my queue, yesterday)!
Why are they missing from the embedded video? You’re making me look like a liar. Do you actively hate the Deaf and HoH? Or those with audio processing disorder? Or people scrolling your site where they don’t want to disturb others?
You might as well block all audio on videos, so they can’t play any sound at all (That’s sarcasm, not a suggestion), since that’s basically what you’re doing for a potential 20% of your audience.
I used to take valium a few years ago (I don’t anymore) and it explicitly had a warning on the bottle about grapefruit juice. For the longest time I thought it was something specific to valium as opposed to ‘lots of medications.’
Nava 