Comments on: Forms of Energy

By: Martin Garrod

Martin Garrod — Fri, 28 Jun 2013 01:25:59 +0000

I like the way you demonstrated your own point by being totally tactful and polite in making your point. That must work well for you and is something I really should learn to emulate. Thank you.

By: Саша

Саша — Wed, 29 May 2013 20:36:44 +0000

Boring. What's the point of it and how is it related to the main goal of the project?

By: M@

M@ — Fri, 10 May 2013 17:06:37 +0000

If you haven't read Erwin Schrödinger's "What Is Life", I think you should. It is very relevant to this post.

By: zenith

zenith — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 09:14:04 +0000

So then you can perform some tests on the molecualr weight components in that sample (after fractionation) and see if any are multiples of the Mw of hemoglobin. Or perform some clotting tests, of which there are many. Or go further, and do xray crystallography, hNMR, etc.

Don't make the mistake of thinking that if you can't understand it or don't know about it, that it cannot in principle be known or is known.

By: Martin

Martin — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 16:44:06 +0000

I love the knowledge and discussion, thanks Rob for this. My input is that we are seeing this as if we were totally understood macro mechanical beings. I believe we are much more fine tuned that we know off or want to accept. Don't get me wrong I'm not getting religious here, which I'm not, but I do believe that there are things that escape our ability to measure or experience/observe. I'm in for scientific certainty, but we should still respect the fact that we know very little.

Reading about nutrition I got to know that the electric charge of what we eat is important too. For example Hemoglobin needs to be charged under a certain range so that they repel each other or they clot. By this they maintain their ability to pass through the most narrow capilaries and correctly carry iron to our different cells.

Many people take a blood sample and see a correct hemoglobin count and think they are ok, but if those cells are clot they ain't passing through the capilaries and getting the job done.

By: James

James — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 23:22:56 +0000

Same way companies that produce multivitamins keep from switching the wrong amounts for their (potentially toxic) micronutrients.

By: buster

buster — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 00:46:21 +0000

The corn-to-ATP journey is way more complex than what is described here. I understand the potential of the rhetoric, and I also understand the confusion caused by its wake. For rhetorical purposes, the term sugar is probably viable. If a dad says to his kids, Stay off the sugar kids, that's probably decent advice. Though, to use pop terms like sugar in proximity to science terms like ATP and glucose, that doesn't cut it. There are two forms of corn sugar present in most American's lives: ethanol and HFCS. Ethanol is alcohol, rhetorically a super sugar, and HFCS is a nearly equal pairing of fructose and glucose. Insofar as crebs is concerned, consume any of this S*** and cells are going to get ATP, but that's clearly not the whole picture. As we all know, cells react to these sources of energy differently. It's also limiting to imply brain cells only run on glucose. These are politicized areas of "science" and they're extremely confusing.

By: buster

buster — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 00:34:34 +0000

I'm going to go with Martin Garrod on this one. There's an important message here and syntax critique is viable.

By: buster

buster — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 00:32:40 +0000

Agreed, within reason. At very least, this info needs to be qualified first. Something like, Audience, I'm just spitballing here, and biologists, jump in when I mess up:

By: Dorag

Dorag — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 13:10:18 +0000

I'm amazed by what I've seen so far BUT, of all the things I've seen I have one thing I worry about. If this rockets sky high off of kickstarter and people start buying their batches, there are simply so many ingridients needed to be extracted in exact amount into what I will be digesting, which is great by the way. HOW can I know , how can we all know for sure that there wouldn't be a mix-up in the ingridients? All it takes is someone accidentally switching between the 70ug of Selenium and 3.4g of Chloride and you'll have a big fuck up on your hands, how are you planning to prevent this?