pro-drugs

Some of you screwballs out there have been complaining that I'm not giving enough chemistry lessons. No accounting for taste.
One of the many horrors that drug discovery chemists constantly wrestle with is called pharmacokinetics (PK) – the science of what the body does to a drug (1).
If there is a more studied food or beverage than coffee I sure can't think of it. Here are some of the health claims you'll find sprinkled around the Internet - prevention or treatment of: