Are you in post-surgery recuperation period or undergoing medication?
If you are, it is good to take caution in adjusting your diet during recovery, especially when you're the kind who always include fruit juice in your meals.
Recent studies in Canada show that several fruits tend to lower (if not deplete) the effectiveness of medication by blocking the body's capacity to absorb certain chemical substances. Grapefruit, orange, and apple are some among them.
David Bailey, professor of clinical pharmacology from University of Ontario, was first to discover the relation between the consumption of fruit juice with absorption of oral medicine. His experiments showed that grapefruit and several other fruits were responsible for the decrease in certain oral medications absorption, and/or depleting their healing potential.
The experiment was done by giving three groups of healthy people antihistamin to tackle allergic reaction, taken with either fresh water, water mixed with naringin, or grapefruit juice.
The result?
Those who took the medicine with grapefruit juice lost half the effectiveness of the antihistamin dose compared to the ones who took it with fresh water.
Moreover, those who took it with naringin showed a decrease of absorption, since naringin prevented the medicine's chemical substance from being released from intestinal track into blood.
For those who suffer from chronic illnesses and are undergoing medication therapy, drinking grapefruit juice is therefore not recommended.
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