@myhealth_aiapp: Some medicines and grapefruit don't mix, and the effect can linger for a day. No app needed for this one — not even MyHealth. More than 85 drugs are known or predicted to interact with grapefruit. Between 2008 and 2012, the number with potential for serious side effects went from 17 to 43. It doesn't take much. One whole grapefruit or a 200 mL glass of juice can be enough to raise the level of some drugs in the blood. Here's how: compounds in grapefruit switch off a gut enzyme (CYP3A4) that normally breaks those drugs down, so more of the drug gets through. For a few medicines it works the other way and makes them less effective. Timing doesn't simply solve it, either. Juice taken 10 hours before a dose still produced about half of the maximum effect, and about a quarter at 24 hours. It's specific drugs, not all of them. Even within one family, like statins, some are affected and others aren't. Older adults tend to be the most exposed: they buy most of the grapefruit and take the most prescriptions. The label, your pharmacist or your doctor can tell you if yours is one. Send this to the grapefruit-at-breakfast person in your family. For everything else: link in bio. Educational, not medical advice. #myhealthbyai #medicationsafety #grapefruit #pharmacist #healthyaging

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