Category: Medications

• January 30, 2022

  Move within (an introduction to pharmacokinetics)

  There are two main categories of ideas chemists can talk about when considering how drugs work: pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics. Today we’re going to focus on the first one, pharmacokinetics. As you can probably guess by breaking down the word, ‘pharmaco’-’kinetics’ describes how drugs move in the body. Some of the overaraching concepts were covered in…
• January 30, 2022

  The body rules

  To understand how drugs work, we have to first have some understanding of how the human body is composed. We can do this by imagine we are slowly zooming into the body at its different levels of components: Body …zooming in… Systems e.g. the nervous system, the cardiovascular system, etc …zooming in further… Organs e.g.…
• January 30, 2022

  A word on medications (how the hang do they work?)

  I wanted to create this series to allow a bit of a peek behind the curtain of how medications work. As a health professional with a special interest in medications, I reflect on my previous understandings of the human body and how medications worked and recollect how mystifying all things things were. The overarching notion…