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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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World’s Worst Novel: Chapter Three
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The World’s Worst Novel
So bad it doesn’t have a title. Or an ending. Or a middle. Chapter One – Revised
Polar vortex? Lots of polar, little vortex, on the Georgian Bay
I find these satellite photographs absolutely fascinating, and the better side of the space programmes that are basically driven by that good old military/industrial complex that just won’t die. The detail is phenomenal, all though you cannot see me waving … Continue reading
Muskrat Love … well … Otter love … or maybe we otter talk about some thing else
You know the song, it was ineluctable, even if you managed to eluct the decade, and I am going to have to play it, as a fitting sound track to the world’s worst otter porn, which I happened to photograph … Continue reading
Lame claim to fame, but you take what you can get
One of the unusual benefits of living in a community mostly of professors, which I kind of did in the city, where they came and drank cocktails at our house, but really did at the cottage, which has an unusual association … Continue reading
Home again, home again, jiggedy-jig …
So here we are back in O-town [that is an o not a zero, please] and the drive home was just like a drive home. I remember the Prince of Wales once being asked by a journalist upon his arrival … Continue reading
Our view made the news! Not our point of view, sadly, but hey …
[Edited to add exciting pictures of the ice holes as seen from the cottage at the bottom.] Except that they had a better vantage point, being able to fly and all, this is exactly what we are looking at from … Continue reading
Life without the Internet, Oscar Wilde and Kleptocracy
So there I am, with a wifi signal showing full strength, but no internet. To reset the device one must navigate a creaky door, a chilly, slippery, walk, and at the end, another creaky door, a sleeping, we hope, pair … Continue reading
Canada Legalizes Marijuana, Putin Returns the Crimea, saying he was “just kidding around,”
and people the world over decided to practice their religions in their own homes, and to stop with all the hate. Oh well, April Fool’s makes one dream again. But this is kind of funny. Hershey had a big chocolate … Continue reading
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