Episode: 36 Xenogenesis - Adulthood-Rites: II: PHOENIX Chapters 10 & 11

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In episode 36, Richard and Michael come up with a new, scientifically proven diet.

Timestamps

00:00:00 - Start
00:00:32 - Welcome
00:00:53 - Michael looks forward to the future part
00:02:14 - Predictions for Chapter 10
00:02:59 - Chapter 10 summary begins
00:03:50 - Ability to detect protein levels [1]
00:12:41 - Adipocytes and fat lipids [2-4]
00:15:48 - Carbs and fats [5-7]
00:20:31 - Back to Chapter 10
00:23:13 - Another tangent - Oankali creating their own humans
00:26:41 - Chapter 10 again
00:29:10 - Adults in the books are awful
00:34:30 - Chapter 11 predictions
00:35:53 - Chapter 11 summary begins
00:36:43 - Akin hates baby talk
00:37:58 - Zach Anner (that’s who Michael was thinking about)
00:38:13 - Jerk (BBC 3, Tim Renkow)
00:39:11 - Back to Chapter 11
00:40:22 - Think with your head not with what’s in your pants
00:41:55 - We sense Octavia Butler hated people in general
00:44:00 - Akin and his sibling
00:45:11 - Environment and sex [8]
00:47:40 - Galileo’s Middle Finger - Alice Dreger
00:48:51 - Back again to Chapter 11 (it rhymes! sort off..)
00:49:34 - Huntington’s disease [9-11]
00:54:33 - Chapter 11 summary almost finished
00:56:30 - Michael’s long-term prediction
01:00:18 - Chapter 11 finishes
01:03:10 - Jupiter
01:05:23 - Chapter 12 predictions
01:07:51 - Outro

References

Proteins in the diet and genes:

• [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5355364/ - Article about the matching of dietary amino acids with the coding genes.

Adipocytes:

• [2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6539070/ - Article describing the problems with adipose tissue dysfunction in obesity.
• [3] https://journals.physiology.org/doi/pdf/10.1152/ajpregu.00257.2017 - Article reviewing the adipose cell size relation to the dysregulation of metabolism.
• [4] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/oby.20209 - An article in which the authors show the quantifciation of the percentage adipose cell size and resistance to insulin.

Carbs vs fat:

• [5] https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/healthy-weight/why-we-need-to-eat-carbs/ - NHS website talking about carbohydrates.
• [6] https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/dietary-fat-vs-carbohydrate-reducing-body-fat - Very short article about dietary fat vs carbohydrates for reducing body fat.
• [7] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2763382/ - A study exploring different types of diet and their effectiveness in weight-loss.

Temperature-dependant sex:

• [8] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperature-dependent_sex_determination - Wiki article about sex determination absed on temperature.

Huntington’s disease:

• [9] https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/huntingtons-disease/ - NHS summary aboout Huntington’s disease
• [10] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huntington's_disease - Wikipedia article - good start to read about the illness.
• [11] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ene.13413 - Scientific review about the Huntington’s disease.

Jupiter:

• [12] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter - Wikipedia article about the biggest gas giant planet in our solar system.
• [13] https://www.britannica.com/place/Jupiter-planet - Encyclopedia Britannica article about Jupiter.

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