The Dirty Drug and the Ice Cream Tub
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What's Going on Inside the Cell?
When you turn down emtor because you don't have enough of the good stuff, it doesn't just say stop. In fact, it deploys a whole other programme called 'the starvation protocol' Some people call that autophogy, meaning eating yourself. And i came to later learn that that's just junk sitting there. It's crazy. Bcause even in med school, we had histology, and we would be trying to identify all the little pieces of the cell. And i would always see, like you could see, on one side there's this huge brown gunk just sitting there. And i what is that? That's just junk.
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