Hey all, welcome back to the real-life pharmacology podcast. I'm your host, pharmacist,

Derek Christensen. Thank you so much for listening today.

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So with that, let's get into the drug of the day.

And that is Piroxene.

This is actually more of a classified as a supplement.

It is vitamin B6.

This is a water-soluble vitamin, and it can be used for medication purposes besides simply just deficiency.

So with that said, let's get a little bit of background.

So mechanistically, periodoxine is converted in the body or transformed to

periodoxal. And this is an important co-factor for numerous different things, but primarily

it can aid in metabolism of fats and carbs and proteins.

So obviously that's going to play an important role in how your body functions.

It also can aid in the production of GABA.

So as you remember, that's a central nervous system neurotransmitter,

and we've got numerous medications

that can act on or enhance GABA. Many I've talked about in the past, so benzodiazepines

and drugs like that, can have effects on GABA. Pyridoxene is also an important co-factor in the production of hem.

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