Warning: Grapefruit can interact with drugs, such as decreasing the effectiveness of estradiol, making Oxycodone last longer, increasing blood levels when on Viagra, and much more.
Grapefruit inhibits multiple enzymes in the small intestine, most notably CYP3A4. CYP3A4 is involved in the breaking down of a lot of drugs, so when it's inhibited Oxycodone becomes inactive slower, and estradiol won't break down all the way into estrogen. Drugs that are affected by grapefruit will often have warnings on their packaging
Personally, I like putting just a little bit of salt on my grapefruit, to counteract the bitter flavor. Dumping sugar on it doesn't help. Grapefruits are about half as sour as lemons, since they have half the citric acid content.
Grapefruits were accidentally created as a cross between the sweet orange and the pomelo, in Barbados. Those fruits originate from Asia, but were brought to the Caribbean in the 17th century. Since it's parent fruits are native to Asia, it grows well in Asia too.
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(China and Vietnam) are the two largest producers of Grapefruits, producing collectively 6.3 million tons out of the 9.8 million tons of worldwide production.
The painting was made by Robert Papp, who has a website here: https://robertpapp.com/. I don't really know anything about the guy.
The lemon things with all of the recipes was really cool, but to be honest I just like grapefruit raw, cut in half and ate with a spoon.
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I wish "getting better" didn't have to hurt so much. I know rationally that having a decent amount of neutral days, and even very occasionally having a good day, is better than just feeling continuously like the lowest shit day after day after day after day. But at least when I'm constantly broken down I can get kind of numb to it, right now it's like I feel good just enough to not get used to feeling bad, just enough to be constantly hit with this soulcrushing whiplash. Built up just enough that I can break again.
I know it's all part of the process, like building a muscle, it gets torn and heals back stronger bit by bit by bit over time. Just wish that that could get from the part of my brain that knows things to the part of my brain that feels things, just wish that in the meantime I wasn't just some whiny little shit who feels bad about having good days, like what the fuck.
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Yea the whole "trending upward" thing still kinda sucks and I think is where I'm at.