Glucose

... because we figured out a bit, a different way.

Dextrose is, like, puffing things up in a way we don't need.

So what, at some point, were things like YouTube and TikTok doing, where were they positioned in the formula, and are they still there?

Okay, if you will indulge me.

Now that RNA polymerase can copy the genes from the structural locus, so ribosomes can create enzymes, and you can break down lactose into usable sugars, you aren't going to starve today.

But what happens when all the lactose is gone? Glucose is still absent, so the safety is turned off.

We could turn on the lac operon if we needed to, but without lactose, the operator can't turn on the transcription switch.

Without a suitable food source, if you turned on the lac operon, you'd only starve faster.

In general biology, you may have heard the terms locking key used to describe enzymes because the shape of the molecule must be near perfect for the enzyme to be able to work.

The repressor on the lac operon is what we call allosteric, which simply means there need to be two keys.

Remember I said switch and safety? Lactose is one of those keys, that's the inducer, Glucose blocks the other keyhole, this is the repressor.

So glucose must be gone and lactose must be plugged in for the repressor to be able to be removed by a third protein that's always available.

Okay.

And to be clear, the patients you want to know their numbers are patients who are living with pre-diabetes or type 2 diabetes rather than all of us measuring our glucose.

glucose.So I think it depends on your own risk.

So it's knowing your numbers allows you to know your risk.

So if I had somebody who had a, a strong family history of diabetes, for example, I think it would be a good piece of information for them to know, and the reason for that is because sometimes they can do something about it, so it, there isn't an inevitability that they will go on and develop diabetes.

Oh, I love to eat carbohydrates, 'cause you see, it screws up my A1C.

'Cause type one beat us as a way with D-G-L-U-C-O-S-E. And-

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... there's a billion hidden messages in there.

And that ATP is the molecule that cells can actually use to perform work.

Glucose.

which we get from eating carbohydrates, right, can be broken down through glycolysis into pyruvate.

And pyruvate can then enter the mitochondria and it can be converted into acetyl-CoA, which feeds into the citric acid cycle and oxidative phosphorylation.

And what we're talking about at this point is we're talking about the oxidation state of each element in a molecule.

So take, for example, glucose, which is C6H12O6.

We could be looking at the oxidation state for carbon, the hydrogen, the oxygen, and we'd be assigning numbers to each of those.

And some of them would be negative, some of them would be positive, but each individual atom would be assigned an oxidation state.

So there was a lot of things like labs, meds, nutrition support that I didn't need to write down.

Dextrose is always 3.4 calories per gram.

No, right? So that doesn't need to be on my study sheet.

But the things that I don't know need to be on there because then what that takes you is you now have a study sheet on a single topic that is the most important and things you need to know.

The energy puts that together.

It generates energy in the bonds of the C6H12O6, which is the simple sugar, which then goes on to form more complex sugars and starches.

And you can put a bit of sulfur in and turn it into a protein and all sorts of clever things that plants do, providing they have the energy to do so.

And the only place to get the energy to do so is from the sun.