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.
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(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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wait how does this work is it too late?
"how it works" is largely just shit i made up in my head after skimming the wikipedia article on what a traditional Veneralia looked like. But tl;dr, you can ask Venus for a change of heart. Historically this was done to reinforce "traditional sexual values" i.e. comphet shit but it's my practice so I can do what I like instead.
idk how much mileage you'd get out of it with no prior worship of Venus however
I worship Hecate and the moon but I have given thanks to Ishtar and I have plenty of red candles which matches the aspect I would like influence in so i'm gonna try. I once again find myself grateful to you :)
Gods speed to you, conrade
wait, again? what did i do the first time?
you inspired me to start HRT last year, which is the best thing i have ever done for myself. You were very vocal and excited about everything and it was a real 'I want what she's having' thing for me.
I always wanted to have my transition be so loud and angry that it would bring someone else to follow behind me, and I'm glad it did