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solinaceae t1_iw8jo3o wrote
Reply to comment by ironicf8 in COP27: Israel harnessing DNA of bygone wild crops to enhance food supply by Sariel007
Imagine the conditions an ancient plant needed to survive in, pre pesticides, pre modern irrigation, pre greenhouse, etc. They had to be a lot more robust in unpredictable conditions. Our current climate is making conditions less predictable again, but our crops were bred for predictability. So we need to help our crops adapt.
solinaceae t1_j8r4jpw wrote
Reply to comment by takingastep in An ancient human foraging instinct, fueled by fructose production in the brain, may hold clues to the development and possible treatment of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). by CUAnschutzMed
Fructose doesn’t also stimulate the satiety hormones unless it gets converted into glucose first, which only a portion of it does. So you’re hungrier on a fructose diet than a glucose diet.
And a metabolic pathway to process it in the liver can lead to fatty liver disease.
But let’s put it in all our food and drinks.