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The relationships and interactions between foods, the nutrients they contain, and drugs are gaining recognition in the health care and medical fields. Certain foods and specific nutrients in foods, if ingested concurrently with some drugs, may affect the overall bioavailability, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, and therapeutic efficacy of the medications. Furthermore, the therapeutic efficacy of many drugs depends on the nutritional status of the individual. In other words, the presence or absence of some nutrients in the gastrointestinal tract and/or in the body’s physiological system, such as in the blood, can enhance or impair the rate of drug absorption and metabolism. All of these types of interactions are considered to be nutrient—drug interactions.
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Wunderlich, S.M. (2004). Food and Drug Interactions. In: Mozayani, A., Raymon, L.P. (eds) Handbook of Drug Interactions. Forensic Science and Medicine. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-654-6_11
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