How does medication work?

[Bubble99]

When you take medication for problem how does it work? How does the medication know how to go to ares of your body.

Some one said some thing about receptors and agonists what do they do?

Why do some people get side effects from taking medication?

Why can the human body produce its own medicine with out side effects!

 

[chown33]

Have you tried entering your questions into a web search engine or AI chatbot?

Most search engines these days have access to AI. For example, when I enter the title of the thread into DuckDuckGo search engine, I get a bunch of websites, along with an AI-generated summary.

You can also find details about specific things, like agonists and receptors, by searching Wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medication

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agonist

Here's the search page with "agonist" entered as the search term:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=agonist&fulltext=Search&ns0=1

A website dedicated to medical info, such as webmd, may also be good source of brief or simplified answers.

 

[Gregg2]

When you take medication for problem how does it work? How does the medication know how to go to ares of your body.


Why can the human body produce its own medicine with out side effects!

Well, of course, the medication does not direct itself. Researchers have discovered how to make various combinations of ingredients/agents target specific ailments or parts of the body, sometimes through trial and error.

Why? It's by design. How is a bit more complicated.

 

[Mrbobb]

I read through all the warnings of my meds and I give up, one says it can cause constipation, then the next sentence it can cause diarrhea. What is it, how can it have side effect 1, then 180 degree to side effect 2??? People who invented these things, do they know what they are doing or is it all an experiment?

 

[circatee]

I read through all the warnings of my meds and I give up, one says it can cause constipation, then the next sentence it can cause diarrhea. What is it, how can it have side effect 1, then 180 degree to side effect 2??? People who invented these things, do they know what they are doing or is it all an experiment?

I personally think is it the latter. Afterall, "They are practicing medicine..."

 

[boswald]

I read through all the warnings of my meds and I give up, one says it can cause constipation, then the next sentence it can cause diarrhea. What is it, how can it have side effect 1, then 180 degree to side effect 2??? People who invented these things, do they know what they are doing or is it all an experiment?

What's kinda sad-kinda funny is medicine that have side-effects worse than what you're taking them for!