Quite often, medications cannot be taken with grapefruit juice. This is because grapefruit juice blocks an enzyme responsible for metabolism of the drug. Chemicals ingrapefruit juice bind to the active site of the enzyme. What type of inhibition is this, and what would it do to the amount of medication in your blood? Why is this bad for you explain?

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