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        That’s right. That’s right.

        It’s all about pills, grapefruit, a problem you don’t need to have. Grapefruit can have curable reactions with certain medications and the list of drugs that is involved has been growing. Just 5 years ago, there were only 17 drugs to worry about it, now that’s going up to 85. And take a look what drugs those are: Statins & heart drugs, sleeping pills, antibiotics², seizure³ medications, anti-cancer drugs, a long list. 

        And it’s just eating the grapefruit or as its juice along, which is it?

        It will. It is grape all, grapefruit, grapefruit is the forbidden fruit. It’s a.

        Whether eat it or drink it as juice.

        That’s right. It’s that a bitter emission⁴ grapefruit. They cause the problem. Take a look at this. Just drink one glass of a grapefruit or eating one grapefruit is enough to have the effect and it can last for up to 24 hours. So you’d have to feed grapefruit hours before and after your pill, you still can have the problem. The chemical in grapefruit mixed drug more potent⁵ by preventing your body from breaking the drug down. It basically gave you an overdose of the drug. And the effect can be horrible. It can stop your heart, it can damage your kidneys, serious problems.

        So a list of the medication that we can do this.

        We have that on abcnews.com. Look at the list, look at the drugs and if you have any on there, talk to your doctor and stop beating grapefruit.

        OK, thank you, Richard Besser, a big warning out tonight.

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