– Why does body weight matter with certain drugs?

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Wondering why body weight matters with certain drugs. It’s never made sense to me considering that drugs act on receptors in the brain, so I don’t see why body weight would matter if the drug is only affecting the brain receptors

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Having a larger body means that the drug has more places to stop,and it reaches the brain slower.the drug can start being broken down in the blood by the specific enzymes,even before it reaches the liver.

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