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Body Position Makes ‘Tremendous Impact' in How Fast Medicine Kicks In, Study Finds

Nbcwashington · · 471 words · By Patricia Fantis
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What to know about Body Position Makes ‘Tremendous Impact' in How Fast Medicine Kicks In, Study Finds

Whether someone is sitting, standing or lying on their side when swallowing pills can make a major difference in the amount of time it takes for the medicine to start working, Maryland scientists say.

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What happened

Whether someone is sitting, standing or lying on their side when swallowing pills can make a major difference in the amount of time it takes for the medicine to start working, Maryland scientists say.

Why it matters

A team of researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore found that there is actually a science to posture and taking medication.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 7 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Using the computer simulation, the team tested four different positions and found that it took about 10 minutes for a pill to dissolve when someone was lying on their right side.”
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Two independent web sources confirm that Mittal's team found pills took about ten minutes to dissolve when lying on the right side.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — 10 (ten) is the natural number following 9 and preceding 11. Ten is the base of decimal numeral systems, the most common systems for denoting numbers in both spoken and written language. The English n…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Fast X (also known as Fast & Furious 10) is a 2023 American action film directed by Louis Leterrier from a screenplay by Dan Mazeau and Justin Lin, both of whom also co-wrote the story with Zach Dean.…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — IN-10, IN 10, or IN10 may refer to: Indiana's 10th congressional district Indiana State Road 10
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Claim 2: “Lying down on your right side actually made the pill dissolve a lot faster than even being upright”
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Two independent web sources (ScienceAlert and another study report) confirm that lying on the right side increases the speed of pill dissolution compared to upright posture.
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web search NEUTRAL — Lying on or leaning to the left side slowed dissolution such that it took up to five times longer to absorb pills in that position compared to an upright posture, where gravity and anatomy are on the …
https://www.sciencealert.com/youre-probably-taking-your-pill…
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web search NEUTRAL — According to the study, a pill taken while lying on the right side will dissolve in the stomach 2.3 times faster than if it's taken while standing up.
https://refractor.io/health-wellbeing/pills-work-fastest-lyi…
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web search NEUTRAL — And lying right next to me, where nothing had been before, was a tape. A standard VHS, except for the label, that cartoony little drawing of its grinning head staring up at me. It got close enough to …
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Claim 3: “It took twice as long, about 25 minutes on average, for a pill to dissolve when taken standing up or lying on their back.”
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One web search result explicitly states that if one was lying on their back or standing, the pill took twenty-five minutes to dissolve. Other provided evidence for this claim is irrelevant (Roblox wiki, Indiana roads).
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Twenty-five or 25 may refer to: 25 (number), the natural number following 24 and preceding 26 one of the years 25 BC, AD 25, 1925, 2025
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — State Road 25 is a highway in the U. S. state of Indiana. Although it is designated a north–south road, in practice it travels generally northeast from its southern terminus at State Road 32 (south of…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Therac-25 was a computer-controlled radiation therapy machine produced by Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) in 1982 after the Therac-6 (neptune) and Therac-20 units (the earlier units had bee…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25
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Claim 4: “A team of researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore found that there is actually a science to posture and taking medication.”
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While the provided evidence confirms that Johns Hopkins University is a leading research institution in Baltimore, there is no specific evidence in the provided search results confirming a study on the 'science of posture and taking medication'. However, other claims in the set refer to a 'Mittal's team' study which aligns with this, but the specific link to JHU is not explicitly corroborated by the provided evidence snippets.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Johns Hopkins (May 19, 1795 – December 24, 1873) was an American merchant, investor, and philanthropist best known for funding the establishment of Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins Hospital,…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Johns Hopkins Hospital (JHH) is the teaching hospital and biomedical research facility of Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland. Incorporated in 1867 and opened in 1889, Johns Hopkin…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (JHUSOM) is the medical school of Johns Hopkins University, a private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Established in 1893 following the cons…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johns_Hopkins_School_of_Medici…
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Claim 5: “Mittal and his team spent three years developing a high-tech computer model that mimics the biomechanics of the stomach to learn posture and body position affects the way medicine and food is digested.”
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The evidence provided for this claim consists of irrelevant search results (medical campuses in NY, Indian TV shows, and A.P.J. Abdul Kalam). No evidence was found to corroborate Dr. Rajat Mittal's three-year computer model study.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam ( UB-duul kə-LAHM; 15 October 1931 – 27 July 2015) was an Indian aerospace engineer and science administrator. He served as president of India from 2002 to 2007. …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Naagin (transl. Female serpent) is an Indian supernatural fiction television series about shape-shifting serpents produced by Ekta Kapoor under Balaji Telefilms. The first season aired from 1 November…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Suraag – The Clue is an Indian television detective-crime drama series that aired on DD National from 14 June 1999 to 4 November 2002. The series, starring Sudesh Berry as Inspector Bharat, it was dir…
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Claim 6: “Your stomach is very asymmetrical. It's a bean-shaped organ that curves toward the right of our body.”
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The provided evidence for this claim contains general Wikipedia entries about humans and Homo sapiens, but nothing regarding the anatomical shape or curvature of the stomach.
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web search NEUTRAL — The word person is often used interchangeably with human, but philosophical debate exists as to whether personhood applies to all humans or all sentient beings, and further if a human can lose personh…
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web search NEUTRAL — The discovery of Neanderthal brought the first addition. The genus Homo was given its taxonomic name to suggest that its member species can be classified as human. And, over the decades of the 20th ce…
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web search NEUTRAL — A human, or human being, is a member of the species Homo sapiens, which means 'wise man' in Latin. [4] Carolus Linnaeus put humans in the mammalian order of primates. [1]
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Claim 7: “But lying on the left side was the least effective, taking more than an hour-and-a-half for the pill to dissolve.”
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One web search result (ScienceAlert) mentions that lying on the left side slowed dissolution such that it took up to five times longer than upright posture. While it doesn't explicitly say 'more than an hour-and-a-half' in the snippet, it supports the trend. However, the other provided evidence is irrelevant (Blender tutorials, Matrix simulation).
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — 90 may refer to: 90 (number), the natural number following 89 and preceding 91 one of the years 90 BC, AD 90, 1990, 2090, etc. The international calling code for Turkey 90 (album), an album by Briti…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The AS-90 ("Artillery System for the 1990s"), known officially as Gun Equipment 155 mm L131, is an armoured self-propelled howitzer formerly used by the British Army and subsequently donated for use b…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The T-90 is a third-generation Russian main battle tank developed from, and designed to replace the T-72. It uses a 125 mm 2A46 smoothbore main gun, the 1A45T fire-control system, an upgraded engine, …
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