Liver lessons of the day

I am attending a 2 day seminar titled "Best Practices and Technologies for the Study of Xenobiotics", although a better name for it would be "Presentations that Kevin doesn't understand". In a nutshell, it is a conference on the best ways to study drug metabolism by the liver. And every now and then I pick up an important piece of information that I feel I should pass on to you.

Yesterday, part of a presentation talked about how a combination of certain drugs taken in conjunction with the birth control pill can render the pill ineffective and lead to unwanted kids running and screaming and pooping all ove the place. Interesting science. One of these days I will post the mechanisms of how this works so you, too, can be mesmerized.

Today, I am going to learn some more useful informating as the talks today focus on DILI, also known as Drug-Induced Liver Injury. Two of the talks focus on liver damage by Acetaminophin (Tylenol) taken in conjunction with copious amounts of EtOH (alcohol).

Just a friendly reminder, don't take Tylenol when you drink, take Aleve or Aspirin. Your liver will appreciate the thoughtfulness.