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If you have a splitting headache or a strained muscle, feel free to pop a couple over-the-counter painkiller pills and lie down. Some advice, however: if you seek faster relief, lie on your right side, not your left.
In a paper published in the journal Physics of Fluids, a team of researchers from Johns Hopkins University report that leaning to your right at roughly a 45-degree angle greatly speeds the rate at which a pill dissolves and enters the duodenum, the first part of the small intestine. The small intestine is where most absorption of oral pharmaceutical drugs typically occurs.
According to the research, if a pill takes ten minutes to dissolve and enter the duodenum when leaning to the right, it could take 23 minutes when standing upright, and 100 minutes or more when leaning to the left. Overall, the time it takes for a pill to begin affecting the body typically ranges between 15 minutes to an hour, depending upon the pill’s design and chemical composition.
Very interesting article that my generation of pharmacists never considered
If you read the rest of the article, there are plenty of examples from Johns Hopkins' study
It kind of makes sense to me that different postures would effect the pills as I know it seems to be true if one eats and has a tendency of acid reflux.
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