Research says your posture when taking the drug determines how it works on your body

“We were surprised that posture had such a dramatic effect on the dissolution rate of a pill,” said senior author Rajat Mittal, a Johns Hopkins engineer and an expert in fluid dynamics. . “I never thought about whether I was right or wrong but now I definitely think about it every time I take a pill.”

The model developed by the team, named St gastSim, appears to be one of the first that can conduct a realistic simulation of the human stomach, simulating what is happening inside the stomach when it digests food, or in this case medicine.