0:00 Imagine your blood pressure is finally under control. Your last reading was good. Your doctor is satisfied. Amlodipine, one of the most widely prescribed heart medications on the planet, is doing exactly what it was designed to do. Now, imagine something you do every single day quietly working against that medication. Not a rare genetic interaction. Not something that requires specialized testing to find. Something ordinary. Something you very possibly did this week. I've been practicing cardiology for over two decades, and I can tell you
0:30 the complications I see most often with amlodipine are not caused by the drug itself. They're caused by things happening around it. Without the patient ever suspecting. Today, I'm going to walk you through five of those things. But, I want you to stay until the end because there is a sixth one I've deliberately left off the main list that sends more of my patients to emergency care than almost anything else on this list combined. I'll reveal it after we go through the five. Don't skip ahead. Let's begin. Factor one, grapefruit.
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