Guest guest Posted May 16, 2000 Report Share Posted May 16, 2000 Martha, I have heard the same thing. Do not take grapefruit juice with blood pressure meds because it intensifies the effect of the medication. Bev Hi guys: Enjoying your helps/advice. There is one thing that I wanted to point out about grapefruit. Unfortunately, I can not have grapefruit because I am on a high blood pressure medication called CALAN , generic (verapamil). Some how the combination is not good with possible side effects such as Death one article stated. Well, in my brain fog with fibromyalgia I now can not remember where I read that. Have any of you heard of that medication not going well with grapefruit. Anyway, I have not been able to take the grapefruit seed, but the grape, hey I am going to try that. I know I must not have made this up!! Ha. So I keep away from it. Thanks Martha from St. Augustine, Florida To unsubscribe, email: rheumatic-unsubscribeegroups Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 8, 2003 Report Share Posted May 8, 2003 In a message dated 5/8/03 12:43:12 AM Pacific Daylight Time, writes: , I know that prograf interacts with grapefruit. It causes it to be absorbed at higher concentrations than normal. Something to do with enzymes Jerry can probably give more specific reasons. Patty If you run a google using the terms "grapefruit" and "contraindications" or "interaction", you'll find sites that list medications that work differently if used with grapefruit. Harper Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 8, 2003 Report Share Posted May 8, 2003 Thanks Harper. Hope you are doing well. Sorry you couldn't continue to swim with the seals. Watch safely from the beach. Again, thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 14, 2005 Report Share Posted January 14, 2005 Dear Carol, Grapefruit is lower in sugar than all other fruits, excluding lemons & limes of course. You could have some, but go easy and see how you react. Bee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 15, 2005 Report Share Posted January 15, 2005 > : > Where is grapefruit on the list of allowable foods? > Does anyone know. The gal who cuts my hair turned me > onto grapefruit seed extract yesterday. After doing a > search (http://puregold.com) <http://puregold.com%29> I was pretty > impresed > with what it does. My daughter suggested making > grapefruit juice in our vita mix which uses the whole > fruit (seeds and all/minus the skin). it's the skin and see that the GSE gets it's zip from. it's pretty nasty tasting stuff. I have a almost full bottle you can have for postage of the above brand. but it won't be the same eating a grapefruit as it is not as concentrated. -- Steve knight Knight-Toolworks www.knight-toolworks.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 9, 2007 Report Share Posted January 9, 2007 > > The skin of the grapefruit,, are they good to eat? they are so > bitter.... > > I don't mean the most outer layer of the fruit. Hi there, Would you please sign your name to your posts...we have a blind group member and your name helps her to know when the end of the post is. No, you shouldn't be eating grapefruit at all...nor any of it's parts. Only lemons and limes are allowed on this diet, and that is only the juice of 1/2 of the lemon or lime in the Electrolyte drink. jackie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 10, 2007 Report Share Posted January 10, 2007 No no,, I am not on candida diet anymore. But since Bee isn't all that into fiber,,, I was just wondering what she thought... thanks tim > > > > The skin of the grapefruit,, are they good to eat? they are so > > bitter.... > > > > I don't mean the most outer layer of the fruit. > > Hi there, > > Would you please sign your name to your posts...we have a blind group > member and your name helps her to know when the end of the post is. > > No, you shouldn't be eating grapefruit at all...nor any of it's parts. > Only lemons and limes are allowed on this diet, and that is only the > juice of 1/2 of the lemon or lime in the Electrolyte drink. > > jackie > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 5, 2008 Report Share Posted July 5, 2008 Dear Margot, I enjoyed your tongue in cheek reply to the grapefruit advice. I have stayed away from it, even though I love to eat grapefruit, I never liked grapefruit juice. Hey, I'm all for saving money, especially now with the gas prices. LOL. Hope you had a happy 4th. There were so many programs on TV featuring patriotic music and fireworks, my poor remote was on fast forward for 2 hours. Blessings, Lottie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 3, 2009 Report Share Posted April 3, 2009 ya,i read about that a few wks ago so just in hopes,i started drinking a big glass of it every nite before bed,i also read that it help you sleep. i figure at least im getting it in my system,ya know i wonder wat this acid may do thou...read below...just incase you need a pick me up Bananas are widely known in the medical community as one of depression's super foods. When diagnosed with depression, patients are advised to eat three healthy meals a day, with frequent snacks to keep the mood elevated. Bananas contain tryptophan, a protein that turns into serotonin in the body. Eating a banana or two every day, especially in the morning, provides a healthy release of serotonin in the body that can help elevate and stabilize the mood throughout the day. From: Angelo <tommybad238@...> Subject: grapefruit Hepatitis C Date: Friday, April 3, 2009, 10:21 PM A compound that naturally occurs in grapefruit and other citrus fruits may be able to block the secretion of hepatitis C virus (HCV) from infected cells, a process required to maintain chronic infection. A team of researchers from the Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Engineering in Medicine (MGH-CEM) report that HCV is bound to very low-density lipoprotein (vLDL, a so-called " bad " cholesterol) when it is secreted from liver cells and that the viral secretion required to pass infection to other cells may be blocked by the common flavonoid naringenin. If the results of this study extend to human patients, a combination of naringenin and antiviral medication might allow patient to clear the virus from their livers. " By finding that HCV is secreted from infected cells by latching onto vLDL, we have identified a key pathway in the viral lifecycle, " says Yaakov Nahmias, PhD, of the MGH-CEM, the paper's lead author.* " These results suggest that lipid-lowering drugs, as well as supplements, such as naringenin, may be combined with traditional antiviral therapies to reduce or even eliminate HCV from infected patients. " HCV is the leading cause of chronic viral liver disease in the United States and infects about 3 percent of the world population. Current antiviral medications are effective in only half of infected patients, 70 percent of whom develop chronic infection that can lead to cirrhosis or liver cancer. Since the virus does not integrate its genetic material into the DNA of infected cells the way HIV does, totally clearing the virus could be possible if new cells were not being infected by secreted virus. " Identifying the route by which HCV is released from cells introduces a new therapeutic target, " says Yarmush, MD, PhD, director of the MGH-CEM and the paper's senior author. " That pathway's dependence on cholesterol metabolism could allow us to interfere with viral propagation to other cells and tissues, using tools already developed for atherosclerosis treatment. " Yarmush is the Helen Andrus Benedict Professor of Surgery and Bioengineering at Harvard Medical School (HMS). Grapefruit's bitter taste is caused the presence of the flavonoid naringin, which is metabolized into naringenin, an antioxidant previously reported to help lower cholesterol levels. Considerable research has suggested that HCV infects liver cells by, in essence, " hitching a ride " onto the natural lipoprotein- cholesterol metabolic pathway. Since earlier evidence has shown that naringenin can reduce secretion of vLDL from liver cells, the researchers examined whether the compound might also lower HCV secretion from infected cells. Their experiments confirmed that naringenin does reduce the secretion of HCV from infected cell lines and showed that the compound inhibits the mechanism for secreting a specific lipoprotein that binds HCV. " This work presents the possibility that non-toxic levels of a dietary supplement, such as naringenin, could effectively block HCV secretion, " says Chung, MD, MGH director of Hepatology and one of the study authors, " This approach might eventually be used to treat patients who do not respond to or cannot take traditional interferon-based treatment or be used in combination with other agents to boost success rates. " *The report will appear in an upcoming issue of the journal Hepatology and has been released online. Chung is an associate professor of Medicine at HMS, and Nahmias is an instructor in Surgery and Bioengineering. Additional co-authors of the Hepatology paper are Goldwasser, Casali, PhD, Daan van Poll, MD, MGH-CEM; and Takaji Wakita, MD, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute. The work was supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health and Shriners Hospitals for Children. That compound naringen is sold in health food stores everywhere but I would not waste my money on it until I researched the absorbtion rate taking it orally. Adapted from materials provided by Massachusetts General Hospital, via EurekAlert!, a service of AAAS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 3, 2009 Report Share Posted April 3, 2009 ya,i read about that a few wks ago so just in hopes,i started drinking a big glass of it every nite before bed,i also read that it help you sleep. i figure at least im getting it in my system,ya know i wonder wat this acid may do thou...read below...just incase you need a pick me up Bananas are widely known in the medical community as one of depression's super foods. When diagnosed with depression, patients are advised to eat three healthy meals a day, with frequent snacks to keep the mood elevated. Bananas contain tryptophan, a protein that turns into serotonin in the body. Eating a banana or two every day, especially in the morning, provides a healthy release of serotonin in the body that can help elevate and stabilize the mood throughout the day. From: Angelo <tommybad238@...> Subject: grapefruit Hepatitis C Date: Friday, April 3, 2009, 10:21 PM A compound that naturally occurs in grapefruit and other citrus fruits may be able to block the secretion of hepatitis C virus (HCV) from infected cells, a process required to maintain chronic infection. A team of researchers from the Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Engineering in Medicine (MGH-CEM) report that HCV is bound to very low-density lipoprotein (vLDL, a so-called " bad " cholesterol) when it is secreted from liver cells and that the viral secretion required to pass infection to other cells may be blocked by the common flavonoid naringenin. If the results of this study extend to human patients, a combination of naringenin and antiviral medication might allow patient to clear the virus from their livers. " By finding that HCV is secreted from infected cells by latching onto vLDL, we have identified a key pathway in the viral lifecycle, " says Yaakov Nahmias, PhD, of the MGH-CEM, the paper's lead author.* " These results suggest that lipid-lowering drugs, as well as supplements, such as naringenin, may be combined with traditional antiviral therapies to reduce or even eliminate HCV from infected patients. " HCV is the leading cause of chronic viral liver disease in the United States and infects about 3 percent of the world population. Current antiviral medications are effective in only half of infected patients, 70 percent of whom develop chronic infection that can lead to cirrhosis or liver cancer. Since the virus does not integrate its genetic material into the DNA of infected cells the way HIV does, totally clearing the virus could be possible if new cells were not being infected by secreted virus. " Identifying the route by which HCV is released from cells introduces a new therapeutic target, " says Yarmush, MD, PhD, director of the MGH-CEM and the paper's senior author. " That pathway's dependence on cholesterol metabolism could allow us to interfere with viral propagation to other cells and tissues, using tools already developed for atherosclerosis treatment. " Yarmush is the Helen Andrus Benedict Professor of Surgery and Bioengineering at Harvard Medical School (HMS). Grapefruit's bitter taste is caused the presence of the flavonoid naringin, which is metabolized into naringenin, an antioxidant previously reported to help lower cholesterol levels. Considerable research has suggested that HCV infects liver cells by, in essence, " hitching a ride " onto the natural lipoprotein- cholesterol metabolic pathway. Since earlier evidence has shown that naringenin can reduce secretion of vLDL from liver cells, the researchers examined whether the compound might also lower HCV secretion from infected cells. Their experiments confirmed that naringenin does reduce the secretion of HCV from infected cell lines and showed that the compound inhibits the mechanism for secreting a specific lipoprotein that binds HCV. " This work presents the possibility that non-toxic levels of a dietary supplement, such as naringenin, could effectively block HCV secretion, " says Chung, MD, MGH director of Hepatology and one of the study authors, " This approach might eventually be used to treat patients who do not respond to or cannot take traditional interferon-based treatment or be used in combination with other agents to boost success rates. " *The report will appear in an upcoming issue of the journal Hepatology and has been released online. Chung is an associate professor of Medicine at HMS, and Nahmias is an instructor in Surgery and Bioengineering. Additional co-authors of the Hepatology paper are Goldwasser, Casali, PhD, Daan van Poll, MD, MGH-CEM; and Takaji Wakita, MD, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute. The work was supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health and Shriners Hospitals for Children. That compound naringen is sold in health food stores everywhere but I would not waste my money on it until I researched the absorbtion rate taking it orally. Adapted from materials provided by Massachusetts General Hospital, via EurekAlert!, a service of AAAS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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