How can a small piece of medicine tablet cause a ton of side effects?

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How can a small piece of medicine tablet cause a ton of side effects?

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First, you should understand that our bodies are at their core a giant, interdependent, ongoing chemical reaction. Adding even small amounts of particular chemicals can have large impacts on the future outcome of the reactions.

But for the listed side effects, it is extremely unlikely any given person will have all those side effects. The list is formed by trials of the medicine collecting all the odd things that happened to the trial participants; there is no guarantee that the medicine will *ever* cause the things listed as possible side effects, they are just there because it happened to someone who was testing the medicine.