Grapefruit juice increases the effectiveness of chemotherapy
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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Increase the effectiveness of chemotherapy drugs, while reducing the dosage can, if you drink grapefruit juice, established the University of Chicago. This juice has a feature: it increases the concentration of drugs.
Dr. Ezra Cohen checked the juice on the anti-cancer agent Sirolimus. 138 people with incurable cancer performed as volunteers. As the experiment showed, juice, indeed, increased the concentration of the drug with minimal side effects.
It is known that grapefruit juice inhibits the work of enzymes that break down medicines, including Sirolimus, calcium channel blockers and statins. This allowed for the duration of the experiment to slow the development of the disease in volunteers.
The scientists also found out that different types of juice differed in efficiency depending on the concentration of the active component - furanocoumarin. Juice is non-toxic and there is no risk of overdose, which makes it an excellent candidate for a therapeutic agent.
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