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Posture has an impact on how well the stomach assimilates oral drugs.
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Posture has an impact on how well the stomach assimilates oral drugs.

Most of you have undoubtedly taken medication at some point in your life. Many medications, including tablets, capsules, syrups, and lozenges, are taken orally. Even though oral medication is one of the most popular forms of treatment since it is affordable and simple to use, it has a complicated drawback. The human body has a difficult time absorbing active medicinal ingredients when taken orally. This is due to the fact that the medication's bioavailability (pace and degree of absorption) depends on its constituent parts and the constantly changing physiological milieu of the stomach. Posture could impact how well medications work. In order to better understand how this affects drug bioavailability, researchers from Johns Hopkins University and the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine h...