New answers tagged metabolism
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In short: skipping a meal lowers blood glucose levels, which can reduce cognitive performance, for example, memory.
Let's say that between meals you are in fasting state for 8 hours during which you do some desk work and some moderate exercise for 1.5 hours. With such level of physical activity, your last meal and your glycogen stores should provide enough ...
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Arrangement of amino acids determines the protein structure which in turn can determine how easy it is to digest the protein. I cannot think of an example right now; never really checked if two entirely different proteins have identical composition. However, it is not really surprising. In chemistry, it is known that different isomers have vastly different ...
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The product is 4ATP not 2, 2 is the net product because two are used to start the reaction.
Looking at the complete glycolysis reaction helps.
ATP can be used to start another round of glycolysis which yields 4 ATP which can then start 2 rounds of glycolysis which yields 8 ATP, rinse repeat its an exponential process, ATP can be taken from this for other ...
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