If you any active chemical in your system that alters the homoestasis, why does this chemical eventually leave the body? What prevents it from staying in the body forever?
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Many drugs are broken down by various enzymes that are produced by the liver and excreted. Others just don’t absorb very well from the GI tract and get excreted. Others just get filtered out by the kidney. In pharmacy, we have data for how drugs are broken down, how long it takes, and how the get excreted. The field is called pharmacokinetics, and is very interesting.
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