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Can you tell me what is in grapefruit that makes react with medication (cholesterol)?
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Furanocoumarins: We only got this sorted out in 2006 after knowing about the effect for over a decade. There's a strain of grapefruit that is free of these that you can probably get nowadays.
Answered 12/28/2013
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