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“Drinking two to three cups per day is linked to roughly a 60% reduced risk of developing diabetes, a statistic that highlights coffee's robust metabolic benefits that arise from its ability to activate AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK), a critical regulator of cellular energy metabolism.”

“elegans, a type of roundworm, to four different concentrations of BBP: 1, 10, 100, and 500 micromolar. Then, they measured the chemical's effects on the worms' chromosomes and cell structure while tracking its metabolism into two primary byproducts: monobutyl phthalate and monobenzyl phthalate.”

“They analyzed maps of DNA methylation, a modification of DNA that is usually a sign of genes that are turned off. [...] > "We knew that estrogen affects the activity of many genes throughout the genome," [...]”

“[...] > “Looking across the whole genome,” said study author James Fowler, a professor of medical genetics at the University of California – San Diego, “we find that, on average, we are genetically similar to our friends.”

“How they keep it from being infectious: > [T]hey delete a Toxoplasma gene needed to make a building block of its genome and create a mutant parasite that can be grown in the laboratory but is unable to reproduce in animals or people.”

“Findings from the study indicated that for every additional four hours of physical activity per week – roughly 35 minutes per day – the risk of having a new episode of depression were reduced by 17 percent.”

“Cellular DNA is subject to tens of thousands of injuries each day that arise from both endogenous sources, such as free radicals produced during normal metabolism, and exogenous sources, such as cytotoxic drugs, ionizing radiation, and cigarette smoke, among others.”

“In one study researchers screened the genomes of patients with asymptomatic or mild and severe COVID-19 disease for deleterious variants of interferon genes. Out of 659 patients with severe disease, 3.5 percent had rare loss-of-function mutations, which were not found in the mild cases.”

“The study investigators conducted a genome-wide screen of mesenchymal precursor cells (a descendant of embryonic stem cells) that carried genes for Werner syndrome and Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome – conditions characterized by rapid, accelerated aging.”

“1 00:37:16 - Obese individuals have greater than 50% less bioavailability of vitamin D compared to non-obese individual and are 3 times more likely to be vitamin D deficient. 1, 2 00:37:28 - Vitamin D regulates over 5% of the human protein-encoding genome.”