Posted by BryanII on December 22, 2006, at 14:26:21
My Seroquel came with a warning about eating grapefruit or drinking grapefruit juice. Old threads on this site explain that it is due to a compound called bergamottin that messes with some enzymes involved in drug metabolism. So far so peculiar.
My question is, does anyone know if you have to avoid Earl Grey tea? This is my tea of choice and it is flavored with bergamot oil. One article in the Lancet says this contains bergamottin. But are the levels high enough to be a problem? The lancet article was about a guy who drank a gallon of Earl Grey tea daily for 25 years! Might qualify as drug abuse, or at least bladder abuse.
I ask mainly out of curiosity but I would like to know if I should really avoid Earl Grey. Any of you neurochemical wizards know?
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