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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
Volume 22, Issue 14, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ijms22147692
Keywords
drug; pharmacokinetics; pharmacodynamics; exercise; diet
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Lifestyle changes, particularly through exercise and diet, can impact physiological functions in the human body. Physiological changes induced by exercise and modified diet have the potential to affect the efficacy and toxicity of drugs. This impact may play an important role in common drugs with a narrow therapeutic window.
It is well known that lifestyle changes can alter several physiological functions in the human body. For exercise and diet, these effects are used sensibly in basic therapies, as in cardiovascular diseases. However, the physiological changes induced by exercise and a modified diet also have the capacity to influence the efficacy and toxicity of several drugs, mainly by affecting different pharmacokinetic mechanisms. This pharmacological plasticity is not clinically relevant in all cases but might play an important role in altering the effects of very common drugs, particularly drugs with a narrow therapeutic window. Therefore, with this review, we provide insights into possible food-drug and exercise-drug interactions to sharpen awareness of the potential occurrence of such effects.
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