Sarcasm alert: Beetjuice root may be a potent evolutionary force of nature.
Researchers investigate effects of dietary nitrate on cognitive function in Gulf War veterans
“Using a range of magnetic resonance imaging and Doppler techniques, we will collect preliminary data that will serve as a launch pad for further investigation. Our goal is to explore this accessible, noninvasive intervention in veterans with Gulf War Illness as well as in other populations, such as individuals with mild cognitive impairment.”
It is depressing to watching others report on my life’s work outside the context of any publication on nutritional epigenetics and/or light-activated microRNA-mediated top-down causation. But, it’s been deadly to our veterans at an average rate of 22 suicides / day, and there is no reason to believe that initiating a study of beetjuice root will save anyone.
See for comparison, my invited review of nutritional epigenetics and help to prevent the suicides.
Nutrient-dependent Pheromone-Controlled Ecological Adaptations: From Angstroms to Ecosystems
See for comparison: Drosophila Life Span and Physiology Are Modulated by Sexual Perception and Reward
Activities of insulin and target of rapamycin (TOR) signaling, which modulate aging across taxa, increase sexual attractiveness in flies (24). Our current demonstration that perception of sexual characteristics is sufficient to modulate lifespan and physiology suggests aging pathways in one individual may modulate health and lifespan in another (Fig. S14). These types of indirect genetic effects have the potential to be influential agents of natural selection (25), suggesting that expectation/reward imbalance may have broad effects on health and physiology in humans and may present a potent evolutionary force in nature.
Anything you do not know about biophysically constrained viral latency can be placed into the context of a potent evolutionary force in nature or linked to
Femtosecond structural photobiology
Noncoding RNA Helps Cells Recover from DNA Damage
My comment to the Scientist (It has been removed):
James V. Kohl detailedl how quantized energy-dependent microRNA biogenesis links the pheromone-controlled physiology of reproduction to biophysically constrained viral latency and healthy longevity. Links from what organisms eat to the enzyme-dependent metabolism of food also link metabolic networks to microRNA-mediated genetic networks in the context of RNA interference. Drug therapies alter RNA interference by altering cell type differentiation in all cells of all individuals of all species. For comparison, during the past 26 years, Kohl has detailed how the chemistry of protein folding is biophysically constrained at every level of biological organization by conserved molecular mechanisms.