This makes such cholesterol less likely to invade artery walls. Grapefruit juice amplifies drugs. If you take the cholesterol-lowering drug lovastatin, better known as Mevacor, don't wash it down with grapefruit juice. New research at the University of Helsinki has found taking 6 ounces of grapefruit juice with 80 milligrams of lovastatin dramatically boosted blood concentration of the drug. Avoid taking grapefruit juice and the drug together, or have your doctor lower the dose to compensate.
Grapefruit juice raises the risk of kidney stones.
A Harvard study has linked beverage intake with new kidney stones in 81,093 women. Women with the highest total fluid intake had a 40 percent lower risk than women who drank the least. Grapefruit juice raised the risk of kidney stones 44 percent. All rights reserved.