Oranges "Grapefruit" Help Drug Absorption

Grapefruit can inhibit the enzyme in the intestinal wall that slow the entry of the drug into the bloodstream. Consumption of grapefruit with drugs for cholesterol (statins), psychiatry (valium, zoloft), pain reduction (methadone), and cancer drug (sirolimus / rapamycin) causes the drug gets into the bloodstream faster so be poison in the body of the patient.

A recent study by researchers at the University of Chicago Medicine (UCM), the United States, finding the positive side of grapefruit. Consumption of citrus fruits can reduce the dose of sirolimus to minimize the side effects of drugs.

The study, reported in the journal Clinical Cancer Research and quoted by LiveScience, Tuesday (7/8) and then, led by cancer expert UCM, Ezra Cohen. The study involved 138 cancer patients were divided into three groups.

The result, which only needs to take sirolimus dose 90 mg per week. Who drank grapefruit juice only need 25-35 mg of sirolimus per week. Sirolimus and ketoconazole groups need 16 mg of sirolimus per week. However, grapefruit juice is recommended because it is natural and cheap.

Prevent Pollution Effects with Vitamin C

Antioxidants have been shown to be an agent effective free radical fighter. In a small-scale study revealed that the habit mengasup foods containing vitamin C can protect the heart from the effects of air pollution.

Researchers from Imperial College London found that people with asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease more commonly referred to hospital when high levels of particulate matter (pollutants) in the environment outside is high. High particulate matter are the pollutants that cause oxidative stress in the body and in the long run lead to a heart attack.

The good news, the researchers found that in people who have high levels of vitamin C in the body, they are rarely referred to the hospital when the weather is polluting than those having low vitamin C levels.

The results of the study add to the evidence that the impact of air pollution can be reduced by antioxidants. Previously, research in 2001 showed that supplements of vitamin C protects the lungs from ozone.

Interestingly, humans are not the only ones who benefit from vitamin C. The research team from the University of California, Riverside, found that plants are also protected from the adverse effects of ozone if the levels of vitamin C in plant leaves was enhanced.

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