When you have a headache and reach for the pain reliever, you're probably not thinking about your body position when you take the pill. But a new Johns Hopkins University study finds your posture can make a big difference in how fast your body absorbs the medicine, and the wrong posture can delay how fast the medicine is broken down and absorbed—by as much as an hour.

Our guest Dr. Rajat Mittal, a professor of mechanical engineering at John Hopkins University is an expert in computational fluid dynamics.  He joins Dr. Bland to discuss his groundbreaking research regarding posture and medications. 

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