Understanding Medication Absorption Rate: Has your physician ever talked to you about your gut health or questioned your “microbiome” (the balance between your good versus bad GI bacteria)? The likelihood is probably never. Yet the absorption rate of that medication your doctor is prescribing may be the single most important factor that determines the benefits you’ll receive from taking it. You see, every medication you are prescribed has a target area that it’s trying to affect for the good. But, if little or none of the medication can reach the target area, then what’s the use of taking the medication? The same goes for the foods we ingest and the goodness we’re trying to get from the nutrients they contain. It’s reported that an unhealthy gut may decrease one’s absorption rate of vital nutrients by 80-90%. So what impedes or blocks medications and nutrients from reaching their target? The cause is an unhealthy, unstable digestive tract brought on by a state of chronic inflammation or “unhealthy inflammation”.

We’ve all heard of various digestive tract diseases, such as, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Leaky Gut, Crohn’s Disease, GERD, candida, Celiac disease, indigestion, constipation, etc. All of these negatively impact the body’s ability to absorb important vitamins and nutrients from the foods we eat or the supplements we take. Yet, according to the American Nutrition Association, 70 million people every day suffer from some form of digestive issue that negatively impacts their body’s ability to absorb critical nutrients.