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Can i take grapefruit essential oil while on a statin drug?
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Get you: Cholesterol measured before you start it, then consider starting it. Wait 10 weeks ; recheck cholesterol to see if any effect.
Answered 5/3/2014
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Hard to say. : By definition, "alternative" is different than modern western medicine. Generally any drug, herb, treatment, or oil that stands up to rigorous scientific scrutiny is included in modern medicine. Many alternative practices, oils etc do not stand up to scientific scrutiny and cannot be shown to work. 'course the people who sell them make big $$$. Check https://nccih.nih.gov/ for research
Answered 6/23/2017
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