Now initially you might think you don't need or even want to know about
butyrate (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:
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Clear 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. 2017
But 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?
If there’s one thing a computer program should be counted on to get right, you would think it would be the basic rules of chess. It’s all math. It’s all calculation. People, including me, have been playing chess against computer programs for 30 odd years, and I’ve never, ever, ever, ever, seen such a thing. I even called all my family around me, and ran the moves back and forth just to get eyewitnesses. I was like “Did you see that?” “He can’t do that, can he?” The unanimous answer: No, you are not crazy, he can’t do that.
Really fills you with a lot of confidence about…pretty much everything…right?
Xty,
Some of my Dad’s ashes are still sitting on top of my china hutch, waiting for a return trip to Lac Seul, Ontario. Don’t know if I’ll ever get back there, but he’s in no rush.