Certain foods can interact with heart medications, potentially impacting their efficacy and safety. Grapefruit, bananas, leafy greens, soy sauce, black licorice, and garlic may all affect these medications.

1. Grapefruit

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Grapefruit and grapefruit juice are some of the most well-known foods to avoid if you take certain heart medications. They can interact with statins, which lower cholesterol, and calcium channel blockers, which treat high blood pressure.

Consuming grapefruit can slow the body's ability to break down these drugs and raise the medication levels in your blood. This can cause muscle pain, dizziness, and dangerously low blood pressure.

"With statins, it can increase drug levels in the blood and lead to muscle breakdown or rhabdomyolysis, whi

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