grapefruit drug interaction

Amlodipine and Grapefruit: Why Your BP Drops Without Warning

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An educational infographic showing how amlodipine and grapefruit together cause blood pressure to drop from normal to dangerously low levels.

Amlodipine and grapefruit are one of the most common dangerous combinations on American kitchen tables. The blood pressure drop is real, the dizziness is real, and most doctors never bring it up. A customer walked into my store last spring. Sixty-eight years old, retired teacher, careful about her health. She had been taking amlodipine for … Read more

The Customer Who Came in for Ginkgo, and Left Without It

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  The trouble with supplements and medications is that nobody connects the two—until something goes wrong. What a small supplement shop taught me about grapefruit, blood pressure pills, and the quiet conversations happening in every 60-year-old’s kitchen  He came in for memory and energy. He left with a question instead. 1. The Man Who Came … Read more