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Icebergs are an excellent metaphor for our knowledge of the effects of medications on nutritional health – we’re aware of their existence, but we don’t really know the size of the underwater or “hidden” component.

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Medications & Nutrition Overview

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Medications can both affect our nutritional status and be affected by various foods, nutrients and our nutritional health. This overview will briefly address some of these aspects. 

The terms “drugs”, “medicines” and “medications” are used interchangeably.

About pharmaconutrology

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Medications can both affect our nutritional status and be affected by various foods, nutrients and our nutritional health. This overview will briefly address some of these aspects. 

The terms “drugs”, “medicines” and “medications” are used interchangeably.

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How - to integrate these interactions into your reports;

What - to record and comment upon;

Which - both direct and indirect interactions;

Where - to record your data and comments;

When - every assessment every time;

Why - because it is important, and because it contributes to malnutrition.

MedNut Mag Issue 1

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MedNut Mag Issue 1 is an introduction to the applicability of pharmaconutrition in daily clinical practice.

This is a free resource (not even your name and email are required) because we believe many clinicians are unsure whether this aspect of care is relevant to their practice. We hope this resource will inform your professional decision and that you will decide pharmaconutrition is an important aspect of the care that you can provide.

Insulin chart

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Chart outlining human insulin preparations including time to onset, time to peak, and duration of effect.

Knowing the duration of insulin effect is an important aspect of Care.

Useful for clinicians who care for those with diabetes.

Non-insulin preparations chart

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Chart variously outlining non-insulin preparations including half-life, time to peak, duration of effect, and time to steady state.

Knowing the duration of effect of each prescribed glycaemia management medicine is an important aspect of Care.

Useful for clinicians who care for those with diabetes.

B vitamin names

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A number of terms are applied to B vitamins and are often used interchangeably and so can become confusing.

This website is also guilty of using the terms interchangeably.

List of Osmolalities of some medicines

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Osmolality is profoundly important in tolerance of medicines as its side effects are often uncomfortable and therefore unacceptable. 

This is a table of 80+ medicines for which their osmolalities were relatively easy to identify.

Beginners guides


Explanatory tips on the layout of the database


Suggestions for applying the information


Expandable tables to present summary information

Useful sources of good quality research information

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Weekly abstract service - you can choose your journals.

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Weekly abstract service from a range of journals. 

Free subscription.

Enables access to a range of vetted, good quality journals.

Free access however content may cost.

Enables access to a broad range of good quality journals.

Free access however content may cost.

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The Pharmacist Edit - podcast

When will the nutrition scientists

look over the fence and into this paddock of unknowns that await exploration?

Helping busy clinicians access clinically-useful drug-nutrient and drug-food interactions research 

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