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…
Here’s something you probably didn’t learn in biology class: your DNA is being damaged right now. Not occasionally, not under extreme circumstances, but constantly. Across basically every cell in your body, thousands of times a day. Your DNA being damaged is more common and more “voluntary” than blinking or breathing. And yet here you are. Fully intact. Which is actually the interesting part. The Problem With Being Alive Your DNA has a lot of enemies, and the most surprising ones…