Herceptin and grapefruit

[hutchibk]

I don't eat or drink anything grapefruit. My oncs, docs, nurses, etc and even clin trial coordinator asked me not to starting about 8 years ago. I would probably end up on many different kinds of drugs (on and off over the years) and grapefruit may or may not affect some of them, so it was smarter to have me stop grapefruit all together. I liked it, but I look at it like 'those days are over'.

And also, I don't use Splenda either. It's sugar or stevia only. My reasoning on Splenda stems from this... "a new report from scientists at Duke University... "This report makes it clear that the artificial sweetener Splenda and its key component sucralose pose a threat to the people who consume the product. Consumers have complained about side effects from using Splenda in this study, published in the Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health Part A.

Among the results in the study by Drs. Mohamed B. Abou-Donia, Eman M. El-Masry, Ali A. Abdel-Rahman, Roger E. McLendon and Susan S. Schiffman is evidence that, in the animals studied, Splenda reduces the amount of good bacteria in the intestines by 50%, increases the pH level in the intestines, contributes to increases in body weight and affects the P-glycoprotein (P-gp) in the body in such a way that crucial health-related drugs could be rejected. It has been noted that the P-gp effect "could result in crucial medications used in chemotherapy for cancer patients, AIDS treatment and drugs for heart conditions being shunted back into the intestines rather than being absorbed by the body as intended."