The Importance of Metabolism in Drugs

A drug, just as an example, that may do this could be gentamicin. Now finally, if you come back and it's not 1 milligrams, but it's let's say 0.2 of a milligram, it's even gone further,. which could give you a volume distribution of 200 liters. And now what does that mean? Because you don't have 200 liters of fluid in your body. Okay. So all it does is give you gives you an estimation of where it's distributed. As it as the drug distributes more, you have a a greater volume distribution. So the number will decrease. Yes. Yep.