So we’re getting back to why you shouldn’t eat seed oils. If I tried to explain it in a single post, it would be too much. Anabolism vs catabolism. Redox balance. How do cells allocate power to different pathways? What do PUFA have to do with any of this? If you want understanding you have …
Where are we now? We are in a shallow sea. The time is seven hundred fifty million years ago. Ish. (750MYAish) There is no coffee, don’t bother looking. Land plants don’t exist yet. We have started to wriggle. Wriggling requires a left and right hand side. You need to be a bilaterian. Your FACE is …
Cells in the first weeks of embryo growth are in a hpyoxic enviroment and they are glyolytic. Glycolysis does not consume oxygen. As oxygen levels in the placenta slowly increase over the weeks, the cells rely more on mitochondrial oxidative metabolism. This is called oxidative phophorylation or OxPhos because the process consumes oxygen and the …
When the clever mammals decided to grow the next generation in their placentas (except for the stupid monotremes), they remembered their copepod friends who vertically migrate to the Oxygen Minimum Zone so that they can fatten. If you want the fuel to build up you need to close the damper. An initiating event in pregnancy …
I’m a country boy and I grew up around woodstoves. If you want the fire to last all night – if you want the fuel to burn slowly – what you do is you close the damper to almost nothing. If you do that there will still be a half or three-quarter of the way …
In the early spring of 2024 I opened my front door and startled a very fat woodchuck, known as whistle pigs to some country types due to the fact that they are fat like pigs and make a whistling sound when they run, who for whatever reason was under my front steps. As I am …
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