Month: December 2023

Scabies

Scabies is a condition of the skin caused by a small predator a mite,  Sarcoptes scabiei. This small predator burrows into the skin and survives by eating the dead skin which would make it parasitic in nature. Destroying the dead skin would be a positive thing, but his excretion irritates the skin and causes inflammation. …

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Metabolic flexibility

Recently I was asked to explain why are some people more metabolically flexible than others. I believe that the question was geared to explain people’s sensitivity to food, but this was the first time I had heard the expression of being metabolically flexible. Being soyentifically unaware that someone is actually developing a soyence of explaining …

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