• aarRJaay@lemm.ee
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    19 hours ago

    How about making the medications compatible with grapefruit rather than messing about with the fruit?

    • asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world
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      18 hours ago

      Grapefruits are already man-made hybrids of others fruits. Hybridizing fruit is way less complex and way more safe than tweaking medication and trying to get it approved.

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        17 hours ago

        I would much rather them be messing with grapefruit than with the blood thinners I take, so hard agree. Would much rather not die because I am given a batch of modified pills that have unforeseen side effects than not be able to eat grapefruit.

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      19 hours ago

      It’s a grapefruit x mandarin hybrid. We’ve been cross-breeding species for, well, ever. Some foods you’re familiar with may be hybrids and you don’t even realize it

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      18 hours ago

      Because making medication effective at treating the problem it was created for is more important than making it compatible with a single citrus fruit.

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        18 hours ago

        Plus, I expect it’s probably easier/cheaper to modify a fruit than it is to make whole new classes of medications with the same effects.

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      18 hours ago

      Grapefruit interacts with specific metabolic pathways in the liver. Most medications are broken down by the liver. That’s just how the body works, unfortunately

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      18 hours ago

      messing about with the fruit

      You make it sound as though they’re meth addicts feverishly trying to breed a grapefruit with a lionfish and a carburetor lol