metabolize

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• The researchers then placed the tissue samples in a sealed chamber, fed them pyruvate, and measured how much oxygen the cells used up to metabolize the chemical.

• Eukaryotes arose about 2 billion years ago, when a bacterium that could metabolize oxygen for energy took up residence inside an archaeal cell.

• Degrading alcohol is a multi-step process that happens in the liver, where cells metabolize it using a series of enzymes working in a tidy cascade of reactions.

• It metabolizes alcohol and other bad moleculesThe alcohol we consume can’t be directly excreted—it has to be transformed to be eliminated.

• We’re primed to metabolize breakfast before even taking a bite.

• Some metabolize codeine quite poorly and have inadequate pain control as a result.

• Hormonal excesses in the blood require a clean and healthy liver to metabolize and excrete.

• “Metabolism is as unique as a fingerprint, some people metabolize food very fast and others very slow,” says Plano.