My understanding at the moment is that steroids are man-made emulations of hormones (substances that send a signal to the body) and other medications such as Ibuprofen work by suppressing existing bodily signals.
Steroids are like your parents telling you to stop spilling your water all over the floor because you’ll slip. (The intensity of their demands increase by dosage)
Other medicines are like your parents passively cleaning up your spills. (Higher dose = parents spending more energy checking for spills and cleaning them up)
What do I have wrong in my understanding and could I please get a good explanation of how common steroids and other drugs work as examples? How does this tie into each substance’s half life?
Thanks!
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I don’t really understand what you’re asking and your analogies don’t make any sense. All classes of drugs are functionally different because… they’re different. Corticosteroids are completely different from beta blocker and beta blockers are completely different from SSRIs and so on. That’s sort of like asking why apples are different from oranges – it’s because they’re different things. It’s tautological to ask that.
Please feel free to clarify if I’m not understanding what you mean.
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