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There are different metabolic pathways that a medicine can take when it is broken down by the liver. The main route for paracetamol/acetaminophen is not toxic. But your body can only make a limited amount of metabolising enzymes at a time, but as soon as it is exhausted, the liver will use another route. In the case of paracetamol, this secondary pathway produces a metabolite that is toxic to the liver.
The time it takes to see the effect of this damage depends mainly on the other substances in your body. Alcohol, for example, uses the same route as paracetamol, so if you have been drinking, the enzyme needed to break down paracetamol has already been used to metabolise alcohol. This therefore forces him to use a toxic route.
It should also be borne in mind that people do not metabolize in the same way or at similar rates, all of which will vary from one individual to another. But if you don't die because of the poor assimilation of paracetamol, it's certain that you're going to damage your liver.
In the rest of this article, find out what recent scientific studies have revealed about paracetamol... you'll be shocked.
Paracetamol is a poison for the kidneys and heart and this is how it works in your body:
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