Northern Nutritionals

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  • St, John’s Wort and CYP450 Pathways

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    Karline Jensen
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    Dürr et al. (2000) gave 300 mg of St. John’s Wort to healthy volunteers three times a day for two weeks.  They found that this induced CYP3A4 in both the liver and the intestines, which explained the interactions that had been observed between St. John’s wort and certain drugs.  It seems that it reduced the…