Proteins, Explained
You’ve heard the word protein before. On a food label, in a biology class, from someone at the gym who will not stop talking about their macros. But strip away all of that and here’s what protein actually is: the molecule your body uses to do almost everything. Every reaction happening in your cells right now, every signal your body is sending, every structure holding your organs in place; there’s a protein behind it. You are, in a very literal…