QRMitochondria?
Always trying to highlight GOOD science....

Article in Atlantic covers an interesting comparison. Young Americans in the '70s and '80s stayed slimmer than modern youngsters, EVEN WITH the same diet and exercise.

There’s a meme aimed at Millennial catharsis called “Old Economy Steve.” It’s a series of pictures of a late-70s teenager, who presumably is now a middle-aged man, that mocks some of the messages Millennials say they hear from older generations—and shows why they’re deeply janky. Old Economy Steve graduates and gets a job right away. Old Economy Steve “worked his way through college” because tuition was $400. And so forth.

We can now add another one to that list: Old Economy Steve ate at McDonald’s almost every day, and he still somehow had a 32-inch waist. A study published recently in the journal Obesity Research & Clinical Practice found that it’s harder for adults today to maintain the same weight as those 20 to 30 years ago did, even at the same levels of food intake and exercise.

OES isn't just Millennial catharsis. It's flatout true. The jobs, the cheap college, the 32-inch waist. I was there. I did all of those things. Before the era of bankster dictators, Mexican "Dreamers" and all-consuming share value, American employers provided actual useful work for actual American humans, and exchanged mysterious objects called "money" for the work. It really happened.

The author suggests one highly plausible hypothesis for the weight difference: Gut biome has changed.

A less plausible hypothesis comes to my mind, based on a very recent and wildly interesting new discovery.

New discovery: Mitochondria constantly communicate via ELECTRICAL SIGNALS.

What's the relevant variable? Vastly more intense radio field now, thanks to cellphones, computers and digital TVs. This subject has some dubious** advocates, but there's no doubt that the ambient RF field, in the freqs that penetrate tissue, is considerably denser now than in 1970. This technical article describes the change.

If mitochondria are being 'jammed', cells will handle energy differently.



Some support for this idea: It's not just humans. Lab rats, whose diet and exercise are strictly controlled and recorded, are also getting fatter. Same for other mammals in urban areas, though we don't have strict data for them. This set of facts fits the RF/mitochondria idea and doesn't fit the gut biome idea. The mix of gut bacteria is wildly variable among individuals, let alone species. Mitochondria are pretty much the same in all cells.


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**Footnote on dubious advocates: Most seem to be focusing on powerlines. Wrong culprit three ways. (1) 60 cycles is way too slow to resonate with atoms, molecules or tissue. It simply passes through. (2) Powerlines are quickly going underground. We have far less overhead wires now than before. (3) The highest-voltage lines are changing to DC now that hefty solid-state inverters are practical. DC uses the cross-section of a wire more efficiently. Edison wins after all.

Labels: Grand Blueprint, Old Economy Steve

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