#science
#medicines
#pose


“Good heavens, Bob. I partied a little too much yesterday. I have such a headache”
“Lie down. I'll just get you a paracetamol. That always works”


“Behold! Here I am again. Turn around. It is better that you swallow it on your right side”
“Joke! Is that another one of your lame jokes! Oei! Don't make me laugh. What a stab in my brain”
“But that's no joke at all.
When you take a painkiller, your pill takes a long journey through your body. Most painkillers don't start working until they get into your twisting gut. So the faster you get a painkiller in the hundredth part of your stomach, the faster the pill dissolves and the sooner it works.
The attitude you adopt in doing so is crucial. If you take it in the wrong position, the absorption by your body can be stopped. In the worst case, it even takes about an hour longer for your headache to disappear”
“Okay, okay I've been taking them a long time on my right side. How do you actually know that”
“I saw it in a documentary.
A study was done with a simulation of the human stomach”
“Saperloot”
“The model named StomachSlim. It mimicked what happens in the stomach when food, or a pill, is digested. They tested how quickly, in different postures, the pill is absorbed into the body. In different positions: lying on the right side, left side or upright.
The test showed that it is best to lie on your right side when taking a pill. In this way, the pain reliever drops to the deepest point in your stomach. Then it only takes 10 minutes for it to be resolved. In addition, the pill is absorbed by your body twice as quickly as if you were to take it upright, for example. Then it takes about 23 minutes for her to work.
And taking a pill on your left side, like you wanted to do first, definitely not a good idea! This is strongly discouraged. Because then it only takes 100 minutes before she becomes active. The pill then ends up in the upper part of your stomach. So it takes a long time for her to reach your intestines and be absorbed by your body”
“What if I'm lying on my back”
“That's the same as when you stand up”
“She's already working. I feel the pain slowly receding”
“So you don't have the genes of a Neanderthal. Are you lucky again”
“What do you say now? Are there people with a Neanderthal gene? Did they mix with Homo Sapiens”
“Indeed. 22% of Europeans carry this gene. These people need an adapted dosage of a drug. For them, it takes much longer for a common painkiller such as Ibuprofen and blood thinners, among other things, to be broken down by their body. The drug is then modified less efficiently. Ibuprofen, for example, then takes nine hours to be broken down instead of two hours”
“Whew! All right, I don't wear a gene like that”
“Well, actually, I thought so. Because you really don't have any Neanderthal facial shape”
“Joke! As if you would still see that with its wearers”
“Well maybe a little bit”