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andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2018-10-25 12:00 pm
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Green tea ...

[personal profile] agoodwinsmith 2018-10-25 06:40 pm (UTC)(link)
... is potent stuff. My Dad is not allowed to have it while he undergoes the chemo-therapy for his multiple myeloma. It was the only food item he was told to avoid.

Sidenote - something I read in CDB: A Patient's Guide to Medical Cannabis (Leinow & Birnbaum) is that one of the reasons that some foods (such as grapefruit) are restricted with certain medications is that that food uses the same liver enzymes for digestion/processing as the medication, and so therefore there isn't enough to deal with both.[1]

[1] - p 68 - the cytochrome P450 family of liver enzymes
Edited 2018-10-25 18:41 (UTC)