Luckily I don't get many headaches, but if and when I do, I'm going to follow the advice of some recent Johns Hopkins researchers. They found that if, after taking the pain meds, you lie on your right side, the medication will get into your body faster and relieve your pain.
The fastest way, using gravity and anatomy, to get the drugs out of your stomach and into your intestines and to work, is to lie on your right side. Researchers tested several positions and found that lying on your right side sends pills to the deepest part of your stomach, where they dissolve 2.3 faster than when you are in an upright position.
Pills take 10 minutes to dissolve on the right side, 23 minutes on the left side, and 100 minutes when lying on the left side! The researchers were surprised that posture played such an important role in the dissolution of pills. The moral of all this: Your mother was right. Posture is very important!
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