Comment on The human body is a watercooled biological machinery
LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 2 months agoThere’s actually theoretically an endothermic reaction we do. E coli can undergo an endothermic reaction if it has enough zinc. It’s entirely possible this is why we have an appendix. I’ll link studies if anyone is interested
Dremor@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Link it, I’m always up for some science.
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LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Sure. Please note that an official metastudy proving this has not come out, so you’ll have to do some dot connecting yourself.
“Thermodynamic Studies of the Mechanism of Metal Binding to the Escherichia coli Zinc Transporter YiiP” www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6347980/
“Association of Appendicitis Incidence With Warmer Weather Independent of Season” www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9530968/
“Association of the Bacteria of the Vermiform Appendix and the Peritoneal Cavity with Complicated Acute Appendicitis in Children” www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10252422/#:~…
“Metabolic analysis of acute appendicitis by using system biology approach” www.sciencedirect.com/…/S0021925819755392
“Zinc intake ameliorates intestinal morphology and oxidative stress of broiler chickens under heat stress” www.frontiersin.org/journals/immunology/…/full
Basically, not only should we all be supplementing with zinc during hotter months, but also this has indications for the purpose of the appendix and possibly a way to make air conditioning out of our feces.