Bioavailability
Categories: Metrics
Bioavailability measures the party (or lack thereof) going on in your bloodstream regarding a certain drug you took.
Think of your bloodstream as the lazy river at a waterpark, with your blood going round and round. Now, imagine that the park has opened to let people (a drug of some sort) in. The more people who are floating around the lazy river, the higher the bioavailability in your bloodstream.
While bioavailability is a pretty bio-physiological term, it’s important to know when you’re talking money in pharmaceuticals. The higher the bioavailability of a drug, the more efficient it is.
For instance, if you had two drugs with the same amount of whatever-active ingredient, but one of them absorbed twice as much into your bloodstream (aka better bioavailability), then that would could potentially change how many pills it’s recommended you pop, which can change the price of the drug.
