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The dozens of variations discovered in hemoglobins, metabolic processes, and, in the structures, enzymes made it evident that human beings were infinitely differentiable in their biochemistry. No stigma could be attached to the impersonal substitution of a single amino acid that produced sickle-cell anemia.
"In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity" - Daniel J. Kevles
#book quotes#in the name of eugenics#daniel j kevles#nonfiction#variation#idic#hemoglobin#metabolic process#60s#1960s#20th century#enzymes#differentiable#biochemistry#stigma#impersonal#substitution#amino acid#sickle cell anemia#sickle cell disease
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mutuals! I must build a portfolio
#ive been thinking about what i want to do after college and i realized that#academia isnt really for me#i dont have the strength of mind really BUT#ive enjoyed tremendously doing figures for my thesis presentation#explaining the infection processes and the metabolic routes affected in a way that isnt mind numbing#and my colleagues say im really good at it too!!#so ive been looking into getting a masters in scientific illustration and its looking really cool!!#i have to work for a few years before i can afford it but in the meantime i can build a pretty sick portfolio... uehehe#idk if you have any tips lmk!
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"Hollywood star Timothy Olyphant was recently in our store as he was in Bangkok shooting a new movie. Everything custom, he loves his wool silk bespoke clothing!"
From Taylor on Ten's IG
#timothy olyphant#tailor on ten#suit and tie#ok no tie this time#but that's not the point#this was uploaded on july 29#when he was still in thailand#so his hair must be in the process of returning to its gray glory#if only he gained a little weight though#I know he's an ectomorph (with a teeny tiny dash of mesomorph in the mix)#but being too skinny makes him look frail#I hope he's not sick and it's just his metabolism doing its work#even as a middle aged man#fashion#crushes#attractive men#actors
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#ooc#ramblings#you /know/ it occurred to me today that in a certain sense mig caught a lucky break?#in that his dna was spliced with that of a spider's instead of a previous copy of his own dna as he had originally planned#that's absolutely not to say that the process he went through was still several kinds of horrific#and continues to get even worse every time i try to picture what he might've endured#but i'm just saying things could've got way more fucked up for him in a completely different sense. hard as that is to be believed.#considering tyler had - surprise surprise - spiked his drink with something meant to temporarily simulate rapture and not the actual drug#i'll need to have a further think on it but for the moment the closest thing i can compare this to#is something like radiation exposure#where instead of /shaking/ the rapture addiction he sort of signed his own demise?#with cell division shutting down and just other metabolic processes getting all out of whack#that or the process outright killing him like mr. sims#so YEAH#there's layers and layers to this that i could keep rambling on forever about ngngcbn
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All right @respectthepetty, what's the love story happening here?
#(no pressure to answer of course. I just immediately thought of you when I read it)#color coded [metabolic processes] in love#conversations with respectthepetty#gillianthecat goes back to school#hw lb#from my textbook#cellular respiration#glycolysis#pyruvate oxidation#citric acid cycle#oxidative phosphorylation#color symbolism#color coded boys in love
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#weight loss cw for the following tags#i need to word vomit some stuff out#pain stuff recently got super bad#like i was waking up crying bc it was so bad and i could barely move#and ive been doing pain management stuff with my doctor and hit a bit of a wall#so im trying to lose weight to see if that will improve stuff#BUT my pcos makes losing weight stupid hard even without the pain making exercise suck hard#so we're in the process trying some drugs to help and see if we can get things started and my metabolism back on track#and mentally its been a v weird few days coming to terms with it#partly bc of frustrations about my body just never doing what i want it to#im fine with getting the help i need but i just wish my body wasnt fighting me on every front#and partly bc if i lose the amount of weight im hoping to it will be an obvious change#and i know some people in my life are going to make v unkind comments#and im dreading that already#which i know is my anxiety spiraling and catastrophising#but its still stuck in my head and making this harder#especially bc i dont want to lose weight for aesthetic purposes so i dont want those ppl commenting on my body#but there will be no avoiding it. i must mentally prepare for it
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coping strategies dont work, time to weed
#cw weed#as an off mention in the caption#safe than sorry#my art#i guess#Therapy accounts try recommending coping strategies that aren’t just . things I do everyday lmao#Top ten coping strategies! metabolizing oxygen. consuming nutrients. contracting and#. processing the information sent by photons using your eyeballs.#Neurotransmission.#Existing within this physical realm.#Hope this helps! ^.^
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in belated honor of weed's birthday I offer an addendum to my lexi-post-meteor-can-drink-like-a-fish-and-still-be-lucid hc, which is that post-meteor lexi can smoke the kinda kush that would make snoop dogg tweet "GOOD WEED" in all caps and vaporize lesser men and come out the other side perfectly fine
#headcanon.#drug mention tw#edibles have slightly more effect/last a bit longer for her#but it all gets metabolized lickety-split by her superpowered cellular processes in the end#not helped by her having built up a pretty beefy tolerance at college
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i'm so glad my resolution this year was to eat better, and that i had to stick my neck out by driving waaay further to try out an aldi where the prices are crazy better, and in a weird way i'm also glad that my parosmia means it's always easier to steam vegetables and cook some rice than to eat a ready to eat meal or cook something super elaborate.
like, so many things converged and now i'm eating much more reliably than i ever have before and much more steadily, nutritionally speaking. before it was usually an up-down diet of super nutrient rich elaborate meals when i first went shopping, then slowly petering out to "a 6 pack of ritz cracker sandwiches is a meal if you believe in yourself" by about the two week mark when i lost motivation to cook and ran out of frozen meals. now i can't rely on most ready to eat type meals because my parosmia makes the majority of them inedible so when i stop cooking it immediately becomes an emergency that has to be dealt with. and when i say dealt with, i mean i need to steam a vegetable and cook a grain, neither of which really require any attention. at worst an hour of waiting.
like, my diet is barebones as fuck 75% of the time and i'm still eating more overall. because that was the key thing i was always missing, steady easy meals as a constant backdrop to occasional exciting ones. i'm nearing the point where i need a big shake-up like a new grain or maybe a new vegetable in the rotation. but i'm eating so fucking much all the fucking time. i'm eating more now than when eating was a simpler task. i'm so proud of myself. 🥲
#and i've gained 7lbs from my scary january weight#my january weight was a weight i last was at liiike 15? 16? like it literally scared me#it wasn't an unhealthy weight don't get me wrong it's just. i can't be losing ~15lbs in like a month y'know. that screams illness#i think quitting smoking has changed my metabolism a lot#but in any case i think i've actually gained more than 7lbs but i'm building muscle at the same time. does that make sense?#like i think i've put on more but lost some in the process#because my arms are a different shape than they were in january#i'm putting on lotion and thinking jesus christ is that inflammation and then it isn't 😁#adam talks too much
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biggest (really only) negative part of being on adderall for me so far has been that my alcohol tolerance is now complete garbage. i used to have a really high tolerance especially considering my size (5'3", varying weight between 130-140 lbs, generally a fairly small and compact person overall) and could easily handle 2-3 drinks with no issue, barely felt it, but these days i have 1 drink and i'm immediately light-headed.
#it really caught me off guard the first few times i drank after starting it and i ended up making myself sick once which i NEVER do#maybe because it has sped up my metabolism and that's really screwed with how i process alcohol#i know i used to feel less of a buzz than other people my size but it would last a lot longer. not anymore.#maybe this is also just what happens when you start approaching 30. idk.
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Dark Marauders Fest is live!
Please for the love of all that's holy, mind the tags as these are like the deadest of doves but also WOW. Some amazing works in here.
#dead dove#seriously very dead#it's not pining#it's passed on#this dove is no more#it has ceased to be#it's a stiff#bereft of life#it rests in peace#if we hadn't nailed it to a perch it'd be pushing up daisies#its metabolic process are now history#it's off the twig#it's kicked the bucket#it's shuffled off this mortal coil#run down the curtain and joined the choir invisible#this is an ex dove#dark marauders fest#dark fic#fic recs#hp
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i'm glad i decided to try out a ketosis diet again (aka changing my metabolism to basically only use ketone bodies made from fatty acids for energy by reducing carb intake to max 20g/day) for a few weeks because it was a neat experiment but i'm also glad I decided to stop because now i get to enjoy life's greatest fucking simplest yet finest delicacy: mashed potatoes/sweet potatoes with melted butter and salt. i cannot understand how i could live without that. just. vegetables. keto has opened my eyes to new ways to cook foods and experiment with ingredients but i don't think i can live without carbs. i doubt that the majority of people could. also have you any idea how much good simple near-zero effort food there is out there like holy gosh darn in heaven. i don't have to spend hours cooking something to have a nice meal
#food mention#diets#actually anything carb with butter and salt. how can it be so good. call me a lazy goob but i once just microwaved corn and butter#added salt. and it was the most delicious fuckin thing ive ever eaten#i've done low-carb in the past and tried keto a few times and always it felt so great after the keto flu disappeared after a few days#but this time the keto flu did not go away. i felt so weak and awful but at the same time i had less brain fog. and never felt hungry.#but it was werid. i think it might have been because i've been kinda high carb for the last few years and the change was so strong & sudden#also electrolyte imbalances can happen on keto if you're not careful. it's complex.#anyway it got me to eat a bit healthier like (almost) completely avoiding processed foods and unnaturally high sugary stuff#which i just want to generally avoid for personal health reasons which is a whole can of worms but i just dont want to overindulge#sure i can eat an entire bag of candies or chips in an evening if i feel like it but I *feel* my body just being like “nooo” and sure enoug#the next morning i do feel a little bit extra like shit#and another thing: i think i benefit from abrupt diet changes now and then. it feels natural in a way. ye olde scavenger hunter genetics#ya know. our nomadic ancestors would probably have to do that a lot when things weren't year-round available#sometimes only meat for months on end in cold seasons/areas#sometimes basically only plants and nuts roots and seeds and stuff#it's actually remarkable how human metabolism can adapt so much depending on what's available to eat#sometimes fasting for days when food was just nowhere to be found.#i'm not saying “stress your metabolic system it's good for you'” (it probably isnt) just idk. mixing it up a bit at least works for me#btw disclaimer i HATE the whole thing about diet-pressuring and some people claiming that certain diets will solve everything#it doesn't solve all health problems magically. ”"”superfoods“”“ are not a 100% faultless scientifically proven thing.#shit like ''the paleo diet is the number one key to optimal health without medications!!'' no. shut.#on the other hand i do believe diets can help a bit like a nudge. it's just one factor out of many that affects how we feel#ANYWAY conclusion: eat what you want. do what feels right for you. find your own ways to make the food you eat help your health a bit#or don't! be yourself! love yourself!#the chosen method is gonna be different for everybody#but from now on im gonna try and eat as close to natural unprocessed foods as I can in this day and age. it feels right for me somehow.#i think *my* preferred method/diet whatever is to mainly eat natural unprocessed foods and to mix it up a bit now and then with change#for that sweet ''METABOLIC ADAPTATION'' perk that feels good for me#(why did this post become so long. nobody cares. anyway i don't care if nobody cares. i care. *I* care!!! wooopp)
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fucking worst thing ever (hyperbole) when you eat a substantial meal at a weird time because you're like grabbing a bite with a friend or something (too early) and then because you're full you don't eat anything really substantial later (habit) and so you wake up the next day ready to like drink the blood of the nearest person (not hyperbole)
#i'm not HUNGRY. i need you to understand that my stomach actively hurts too much for me to consider eating food#i want meat. i ONLY want meat. i dont want it cooked i dont care about flavor give me no fancy nothing. no sides no bun no seasoning#i want to cram my mouth full of literally just raw beef.#red rambles#hopefully drinking something sugary will wake my normal metabolism up so this cuts out. it usually does. the thought is just like#turning my fucking stomach right this second#important context being that this IS a semi-regular hunger experience for me. when i get super hungry my body flips out#and if i wake up like that it really does not like processing the conflicting signals of 'this is super normal and nothing is different'#and 'clawing pain in torso region' lmao
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just had the chance of standing in front of a full, clean full body mirror and percieve myself while trying some clothes that looked fantastic on my head and be disappointed by how they actually looked on me lmao - I'm too small in any way to fill up the clothes i actually like
maybe i dress like a teenage boy because those are the clothes that fit me (8
#a lot of us would kill to have a body like yours#a fasr metabolism#in a serious note my mom saying#im skinny. always have been. but i grew up with health issues that meant i couldn't eat things like milk or fatty things like egg yolks#to name just a couple#but i grew up without milk. at all. as a baby. its amazing my parents were able of doing that but yeah#and then they say i have which - idk if thats An Actual Thing#or me just not being able of actually processing food correctly?#because i feel hunger quite fast/a kot during the day#and if im not careful i consume myself. i have very low fat percentage#which means producing muscle and keeping it is also hard#sigh#anyways all or this bc i wanted to try cosplaying matt murderdock. the lankiest murdock possible#and i still look...off#gaal talks#in the tags
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i've done a lot of research into health and fitness in the last 9 months or so and i knew Right Away that tracking was never going to be for me. i know a lot of people swear by it but i knew it would lead me down an obsessive spiral (and for a very short time it did....i started paying more attention to the calories listed on certain foods and remember freaking out when i had a croissant for breakfast, like it genuinely bothered me the whole time i was at work; i'm very glad i managed to break myself out of that sort of thinking). it's also annoying when people, esp on reddit, are like 'it’s the ONLY way to lose weight', absolutely not. just the concept itself seems so obsessive to me, weighing and logging in every single thing you eat. how do you sustain that long term. and what about when you go out. and also, and i feel like this is the biggest problem for me, how do you track homemade meals that aren't white. how would i calculate the calories in a plate of baingan bharta. and i know you could weigh the ingredients when you're cooking and get an estimate of the calories but it's so tedious.
#i cant quantify food like that i can't turn it into numbers#when people say things like i thought about eating (any kind of sweet treat) but didn't bc i didn't want to log it into myfitnesspal#what really helped me personally was realizing that nutrition and our bodies are so much more complex than we think#everyone processes food differently. everyone's metabolisms are different. there's no one size fits all approach to fitness/health#but tracking is like..... doesn't that alter your relationship with food. i can't understand how some people love it hfjdhfhf i#like you have a little snack or something and then you're like oh let me log this on myfitnesspal like it's an obligation#personally it couldn't be me#like the fact that it's always going to be in the forefront of your mind whenever you eat is just so not conducive for someone like me#also what if you eat like. a few bites of something. how do you log that. it just seems a bit much#sorry this is a vent about tracking. im always fascinated by people for whom this is a nice and agreeable method. sounds hellish to me luv#food tw
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Me: oh yeah!!! I will definitely extend these parts of the discussion as my thesis advisor advised !!!
Me when I actually had to do it: *wrote 3 sentences extra and called it a day*
#listen im afraid i have no idea what metabolism peaks 90-120min after lipid rich meal#the only thing i founs is that when about half of the meal is in the small intestine and half still hanging around in the stomach#why it increases metabolism? well of course i can speculate BUT NO ONE IN THIS CENTURY DECIDED TO WRITE ABOUT IT#if you have a decent article about postprandial metabolism after lipid rich meal and which has a peak around 2 hours#id appreciate if you shared#but the chances are. you dont lol.#thesis adventures#uni thinking process
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