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Excipient Avoidance

Meaning

The deliberate clinical and pharmaceutical practice of formulating medications, particularly compounded hormones, without inactive ingredients such as dyes, fillers, preservatives, or binding agents that may provoke allergic reactions, sensitivities, or gastrointestinal distress in susceptible patients. This strategy is central to personalized medicine and optimizing therapeutic tolerability. It reflects a commitment to prescribing the purest possible active pharmaceutical ingredient.