What is it about grapefruit specifically that messes with pretty much every prescription in existence?

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What is it about grapefruit specifically that messes with pretty much every prescription in existence?

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Pretty sure it either suppresses or induces cytochrome p450 which is involved in a lotttt of medication metabolism. So depending which, it would either decrease or increase blood levels of the medication which would obviously be problematic. Same mechanism by which a lot of medications mess with other ones.

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