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OUR VESTIGIAL METABOLIC DRIVERS that motivated our cave men ancestors were to prioritize high fat, high calorie diets, because food supply was forever uncertain. Their adrenaline release freed up fuels to make muscles work (flight and fright). Our modern lives have too much fat and calories, and flight or fight reactions lay the fat in our arteries, not to feed working muscle. Diseases of civilization. View in LinkedIn

SUGAR = THE NEW NICOTINE, Stimulating the same pleasure centers of the brain, inducing craving. "On"CBS This Morning," Dr. Mark Hyman said, "In animal studies, they find that the rats go for the sugar and that it's eight times as addictive as cocaine. Small amounts of sugar can be part of a normal diet, but most of us are addicted to sugar and don't know it." https://lnkd.in/ePxGA7t View in LinkedIn

TOBACCO = JUNK FOOD. Remember that the ownership of huge sectors of the junk food market is by tobacco interests. They are in the same business of physiologically inappropriate cue stimulation and addiction, with a predeliction for young customers. View in LinkedIn

MEMBRANE REMODELLING. "For successful adaptation to altered physicochemical environments, cell membrane remodelling is essential. Our data indicate that the fluidity of the plasma membrane can be used as an indicator of fitness for survival in extreme environments." http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1567-1364.2007.00209.x/full View in LinkedIn

HARSH ARCTIC SEA ENVIRONMENTS. "Extracellular freezing leads to cell dehydration, and the chilling temperatures reduce water absorption. Dehydration caused by high salinities and a low water activity is therefore a major stress factor for ice-trapped organisms. Conversely, when the ice melts, the organisms that are released are suddenly exposed to hyposaline conditions, providing an advantage for those that can adapt to a wide salinity range." http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1567-1364.2007.00209.x/full View in LinkedIn

"ARCHAEAL MEMBRANES are made of molecules that differ strongly from those in other life forms, showing that archaea are related only distantly to bacteria and eukaryotes. The stereochemistry of the glycerol moiety is the reverse of that found in other organisms. This suggests that archaea use entirely different enzymes for synthesizing phospholipids than do bacteria and eukaryotes. In some archaea the lipid bilayer is replaced by a monolayer." https://lnkd.in/erDwTyt View in LinkedIn

UNIQUE CRYSTALLINE MEMBRANES. "Most of the archaeal species characterized so far have a single chemically distinct cell membrane, which differs considerably from their eukaryotic and bacterial counterparts. The ether-type polar lipid surface is covered by a surface layer composed of glycoproteins crystallized in regular two-dimensional lattices with hexagonal or tetragonal symmetry." https://lnkd.in/eBsayVj View in LinkedIn

"THE ARCHAEA are a unique group of organisms that share properties with both the eukarya and bacteria. For a long time, archaeal life was considered to be limited to extreme environments such as high temperature, alkaline and acidic hot springs, anaerobic sediments, and highly saline environments." https://lnkd.in/eBsayVj View in LinkedIn

SENSUAL INTERFACE. "Our goal is to give tangible, interactive forms to information so that a user's senses will experience digital environments as though they are indistinguishable from reality. Claytronics is taking place across a rapidly advancing frontier. This technology will help to drive breathtaking advances in the design and engineering of computing and hardware systems." http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~./claytronics/ View in LinkedIn

EXTREMOPHILES are a group of highly adapted organisms living in conditions lethal to other life forms. Their outer cell membranes are the interface between these harsh environments and the often delicate cellular machinery inside, and in many cases show remarkable adaptations that permit their unusual lifestyle. View in LinkedIn