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Word of the Day
Now initially you might think you don't need or even want to know aboutbutyrate (ˈbjuːtɪˌreɪt) noun,
any salt or ester of butyric acid, containing the monovalent group C3H7COO- or ion C3H7COO–, and when you then bumped into this, having first found out it is in butter, you might well panic:
Examples of butyrate in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the WebClear plastic screwdriver handles are usually made from cellulose acetate butyrate, a material developed in the 1930s.
— Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, "Why Do My Old Plastic Screwdriver Handles Stink?," 8 Oct. 2017But then you would realize that lately it has had a great rise in reputation and helps maintain your biodome and aids in the production of key neurotransmitters that help both our gut and our brains to work. Apparently we make it when bacteria in our bellies ferment high fibre carbohydrates, but it is also, and here is the punchline, found in butter! The highest food source for it. I am relieved, and think I will just butter up everything!
At least these verbose scientist think so:
The neuropharmacology of butyrate: The bread and butter of the microbiota-gut-brain axis?
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Category Archives: MY UN-NERVING
Four years … to get bacq on a bicycle …
Four years ago, four interesting Februarys ago, we went on what proved to be, and we suspected, a last family trip with my mum, to the Turks and Caicos. A lot of things hadn’t happened then, one of them being … Continue reading
I think I shall call it the Brain of Whew …
I have mentioned Norman Doidge’s The Brain’s Way of Healing in the Word of the Day [or Week, or Eon, but my intentions are good] and would like to give it a little more attention. This book, while in a way full … Continue reading
My un-nerving being an underlying serious [lower right] side to this blog, allow me to repeat myself …
Yesterday I was able to go and see the surgeon in Montreal who had so successfully found and repaired what others had missed. That surgery was just over two years ago, in July of 2012. Then we jump forward through a … Continue reading
A hug is a drug! Science to the rescue …
I am always happy to misinterpret what I read, and when it backs up common sense and anecdotal experience, then the sky’s the limit. One of the silliest medical experiences of my life involved early offspring #3’s journey through two … Continue reading
My blood pressure would be rising, if I weren’t pinned to the gills
on Tramadol. You know, I am not just making this up to make some sort of point. And I know that my troubles have greatly reduced my reach but not slain me, and I should be grateful, and am, that … Continue reading
Has anyone mentioned a hip replacement?
I still remember the first time I was ‘ma’am’ed, and it stings, I mean stung. Here was I thinking I was pretty hot stuff, albeit married, as I was putting gas in our Mazda 626, which kind of dates the … Continue reading
Well, that was a bust, and I don’t mean Dolly Parton!
For those of you following my hernia saga: And on a completely different topic, MRI’s, pain and spreading the word; today I had an appointment with a sports medicine doctor, to whom I was referred by my doctor. Not his fault. … Continue reading
And on a completely different topic, MRI’s, pain and spreading the word
Good Morning I feel compelled to occasionally blog about my hernia, which is turning into quite the saga, not just because I ramble on about all topics, myself included, but because I have managed to get a better diagnosis through … Continue reading
Once my daughter made a joke about what if a man had a hernia, would it be a hisnia?
I don’t know, but I’m thinking it would get fixed faster. Not out of the woods with my inguinal problems, and have a nice new exciting painful bulge. However, I am without the nerve pain, to a large degree – … Continue reading
Well, how very odd, if you are me
I just happened to be thinking about getting back to the blog, and also making myself write, and actually wrote a paragraph this morning that started: Another new beginning! I am finally awake! But this time it is a pretty … Continue reading
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