Tuesday, June 16, 2020

Alcohol, Acetate and how it changes behavior and addiction memory

acetate!
acetate—a byproduct of the alcohol breakdown produced mostly in the liver—travels to the brain’s learning system and directly alters proteins that regulate DNA function. This impacts how some genes are expressed and ultimately affects how mice behave when given environmental cues to consume alcohol. Their findings were published today in Nature.
 https://www.pennmedicine.org/news/news-releases/2019/october/drinking-to-remember-consuming-alcohol-leads-to-epigenetic-changes-in-brain-memory-centers

The key difference between acetic acid and acetate is that acetic acid is a neutral compound whereas acetate is an anion having a net negative electrical charge.
Fascinating - yang qi is a positive ion - from proton energy.


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