Grapefruit juice found to give cancer treatment a boost
Posted on: August 9, 2009
Unlike most beverages, grapefruit juice contains a chemical that boosts the potency of many drugs in the body. To avoid a dangerously high dose of medication, patients are often advised to not wash down pills with grapefruit juice. U. of C. cancer researcher Dr. Ezra Cohen wondered if that quality could be used for good — if drinking the juice could boost the effectiveness of cancer drugs.
Grapefruit juice found to give cancer treatment a boost — baltimoresun.com.
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August 10, 2009 at 11:51 am
Some academic work (and a lot of private experimentations) is being done on the small anti-cancer molecule, dichloroacetate. It also appears to be synergistic with various big-pharma drugs.
JPS