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Glossary Term

Hepatic First-Pass Metabolism

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Hepatic First-Pass Metabolism is the enzymatic degradation of oral drugs as they pass through the liver before reaching systemic circulation, which destroys most conventional oral testosterone before it enters the bloodstream.

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