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The body's brutal autobiography of every drug: absorbed, distributed, metabolized, and eventually evicted.
means The study of how the body moves a drug through itself over time — uptake, spread, breakdown, and removal.
from From Greek pharmakon (drug) plus kinetikos (of motion); coined in the 1950s to describe drugs in motion through living tissue.
The shorthandSummarized as ADME: absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion.
Its mirror twinPharmacodynamics studies what the drug does to you instead.
Half-life rulesHow long until a dose drops by half.
Dosing mathDecides how much and how often you take pills.