Yup, Those GT's Kombucha Drinks Are Alcoholic, And They're Not The Only Ones. On Thursday, Kirsten Chilstrom of VICE wrote a fascinating article about the alcoholic properties of kombucha, that miracle tea drink that some claim (hi, Lindsay Lohan) contains a myriad of health benefits â including perhaps, a cure to alcoholism.
Grapefruit juice can block the work of enzymes, increasing the amount of medicine absorbed by the body and risking an overdose.Other medicines, like Allegra (fexofenadine) used for treating allergies, are moved into the bodyâs cells with the help of proteins called transporters.he result: potentially dangerous levels of the drug in your body. The amount of the CYP3A4 enzyme in the intestine varies from one per-son to another, says Huang. Some people have a lot, and others have just a littleâso grapefruit juice may affect people differently when they take the same drug.
6 Health Benefits of Grapefruit. Named for the way the fruit hangs in bunches (like grapes), the grapefruit is a nutritious member of the citrus family. It comes from sunny Barbados and is thought to be the result of the natural cross pollenization between the orange and the Asian pomelo.