Resolved. Brain: Mostly sugar or mostly fat?
Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2019 1:45 pm
The place for the debate whether our brains are "mostly lipid" or "mostly carbohydrate" as the MM source tells us. (If any parent's children are looking for science projects out there...)
So how might we conduct experiments to help us decide?
We might measure the electrical conductivity of glucose in water and compare with oils, or oils in water. Can electric current pass through lipids, or are they more like insulators?
We might use Archimedes method for determining density of animal brains, like he was able to compute the amount of gold
Taste of brain
We know that proteins consist of amino acids, which all have at least one Nitrogen atom.
But what is the difference between a lipid and a carbohydrate?
From the good physics professor we learn from this video lecture
youtube direct link
That the chemical formula for human fat is
C55H104O6
Carbon dioxide and water. (And as I watch, isn't it interesting that unlike other ordinary FAT cells in the body, which engorge and grow - making you look fat - the brain NEVER grows (attracts) fat into brain cells. Yet we think of the brain as made up of fat - but without fat cells?)
The chemical formula for Glucose is quite similar to vitamin C.
C6H12O6
Hmmm all lipids have 6 oxygen, or so says the professor. Very interesting the so does glucose.
Another question, why doesn't the brain use fat as fuel, like muscle, only glucose? (if its made of fat?)
Added. We learn why you can't spot reduce fat, by exercising stomach muscles, to remove fat from the stomach from Ari Whitten's FOREVER FAT LOSS.. Fat and muscles have separate circulatory systems, and when you start burning fat - it comes off from everywhere, in general, not where the muscles are exercised.
Not only does the brain not become fat, implying NO fat cells, but when we lose weight, the brain doesn't shrink, implying NO fat cells. QED?
Note: Previous discussion https://vitamincfoundation.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=14411#p55073 where fatty brain is as obvious as the grass is green
So how might we conduct experiments to help us decide?
We might measure the electrical conductivity of glucose in water and compare with oils, or oils in water. Can electric current pass through lipids, or are they more like insulators?
We might use Archimedes method for determining density of animal brains, like he was able to compute the amount of gold
Taste of brain
We know that proteins consist of amino acids, which all have at least one Nitrogen atom.
But what is the difference between a lipid and a carbohydrate?
From the good physics professor we learn from this video lecture
youtube direct link
That the chemical formula for human fat is
C55H104O6
Carbon dioxide and water. (And as I watch, isn't it interesting that unlike other ordinary FAT cells in the body, which engorge and grow - making you look fat - the brain NEVER grows (attracts) fat into brain cells. Yet we think of the brain as made up of fat - but without fat cells?)
The chemical formula for Glucose is quite similar to vitamin C.
C6H12O6
Hmmm all lipids have 6 oxygen, or so says the professor. Very interesting the so does glucose.
Another question, why doesn't the brain use fat as fuel, like muscle, only glucose? (if its made of fat?)
Added. We learn why you can't spot reduce fat, by exercising stomach muscles, to remove fat from the stomach from Ari Whitten's FOREVER FAT LOSS.. Fat and muscles have separate circulatory systems, and when you start burning fat - it comes off from everywhere, in general, not where the muscles are exercised.
Not only does the brain not become fat, implying NO fat cells, but when we lose weight, the brain doesn't shrink, implying NO fat cells. QED?
Note: Previous discussion https://vitamincfoundation.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=14411#p55073 where fatty brain is as obvious as the grass is green