Sawbones: Grapefruits
Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine
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What Can We Use to Hide the Alcohol?
In 1989, Alistair Scherer and his wife were trying to figure out what can we hide the alcohol in so that test subjects won't know if they're drinking alcohol or not. They tried all kinds of different things before deciding on a can of grapefruit juice. And it worked. People didn't know which was which. There was a little bit of difference in blood pressure, but the strange thing is that he was looking for how much of the blood pressure medicine is still in their blood after taking the pill and drinking the drink.
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