Science is like love. sometimes you find what you weren’t looking for, and alcohol can help break the ice. In the late 1980s, history doesn’t say whether the pharmacologists at the University of Western Ontario in Canada found love. But they discovered an unexpected enemy: grapefruit juice, which has the ability to uniquely alter the absorption of certain drugs…
David G. It all started for Bailey and his team on Saturday night, which we can only guess was a watered down one. The scientists wanted to study the effects of alcohol on the antihypertensive drug felodipine in volunteers. But it was necessary to make the participants drink without knowing whether the drink contained alcohol or not. So Canadian researchers began looking for a fruit juice that could mask the specific taste of ethanol. “Grapefruit juice was chosen (…) after testing all the juices in the home refrigerator.”will write…
Source: Le Figaro
