From San Francisco, at a meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research
St. John’s wort, the popular herbal remedy for mild depression, lowers the effectiveness of a cancer-fighting drug, according to a study in the Netherlands.
This previously unrecognized downside results from the herb’s stimulation of an enzyme in the body called cytochrome P450.
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