Glycine: the forgotten building block of life
The key amino acid that slows cellular ageing, improves sleep and rebuilds your tissues from within
Category
Nutrition
13 articles in this section
Vitamin B5
The universal connector of life and the cell's invisible engine
The electricity of food
The metabolic pathways of the macronutrients and how mitochondria reduce food to a source of electrons
Vitamin B3
The currency the cell spends on its energy and on repairing its DNA
Vitamin B2
The fluorescent pigment that turns food into energy
The cellular response to light
Lipid peroxidation, internal photoprotection and a practical guide to eating: from the armour of grass-fed fat to the danger of industrial oils
The molecular architecture
Chain length, degree of saturation and the metabolic fate of fatty acids
Vitamin B1
The spark plug of the human engine
Vitamin A
The pigment of sight and the secret code of the skin
Introduction
The alphabet of life: the nutrients the human body needs in order to work
Real meat vs. industrial «meat»
How intensive farming altered the biology of ruminants and turned an ancestral food into a health and environmental problem
The truth about antioxidants
The biology behind our real defence network against oxidative stress
The hidden science of the coconut
How the coconut's molecular structure challenges nutrition's labels and surprises dermatology
