Juices Counter Medicine

Research finds that grapefruit juice, orange juice, apple juice and other fruit juices can severely decrease the absorption of certain drugs. Juice ingredients appear to block a molecule that carries drugs from the small intestine into the bloodstream. This means that a lot of medicine just flushes out without reaching its target.

Ancients Made Beer Medicine

The American Journal of Physical Anthropology reports that the antibiotic tetracycline was found in bones of a Nubian mummy buried 1,600 years ago in Sudan — long before scientists discovered tetracycline, in 1948.

But so what?

Nubians were skilled brewers. A bacterium, Streptomyces, secrets Tetracycline. So researchers believe that Nubians purposely made medicinal beer by using grain contaminated with antibiotic-producing Streptomyces bacteria.