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.

some-controversy and peekaboo (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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    A major moment is happening... [brief mention of transphobia from family]

    After being on HRT for over 1.5 years, becoming more feminine, being interpreted as androgynous in so many scenarios, and even working on voice training so I can speak in an androgynous tone, I feel like, despite all of my progress, something was lacking from me being able to take on a true essence as myself full-time: the hair.

    I am growing freeform dreadlocks, and though I love the process and keep getting pleasantly surprised by the development, it takes a lot of patience to be satisfied with such a hairstyle. I certainly am willing to wait, but I want to feel more affirmed in my hairstyle as it takes time to get long and more defined.

    Initially, I started wearing headscarves which helps obscure my hair on bad hair days where the freeforms are acting a bit more unpredictable, but recently, I was able to take it a step further.

    I was talking with an IRL friend of mine who is also non-binary, and I’ve known him for a long time. Me and him actually go back to when he was known by his deadname; that’s how far, and we’ve both come a long way in achieving more euphoria. I told him that I started wearing headscarves, and he finds it cute and affirming for me.

    I told him that I would like to maybe wear a wig now that I’m seeing how feminine the scarf made me, but due to my situation as you may know, I don’t have much money to spend on things like that.

    So, what happened is that this friend actually went out of his way to do some mutual aid with other people, and I was able to get money to get a neat, decently long dreadlocks wig for every day use that’s in a color and style I absolutely adore.

    I’m really fucking excited about this. It is expected to come in the mail exactly one month before my birthday, so it feels like an early birthday gift in a sense, the best one I could ever receive, and this is the opportunity that’ll pretty much let me live as my transfem androgyne self full-time without too many “off days” where I look and feel more masculine than others.

    It almost feels unbelievable especially since my transphobic family barred me from living as myself for so long that there were so many moments where I couldn’t see the end of the suffering in sight.

    trans-ferret