Alkalis neutralize acids.

We could use amino acids, we could use nucleic acids, carboxylic acids, fatty acids.

They use some other cell's amino acids and ribosomes and nucleic acids and everything to build themselves.

Acids act on metals.

It's a very long chain of these amino acids, and there are actually 20 different amino acids.

And somehow these amino acids are combined, and life begins.

And it is detectable not just in amino acids.

And amino acids are the building blocks of proteins.

So that we actually, to test this idea, first took a look at amino acids and some other carboxylic acids.

It's possible because the mycelium produces oxalic acids, and many other acids and enzymes, pockmarking rock and grabbing calcium and other minerals and forming calcium oxalates.

Acids act on many things including metals.

Fatty acids can be short or long.

Some fatty acids have only single bonds.

And these proteins, the building blocks of proteins are amino acids.

And these are predominantly what are called the Omega 3 fatty acids.

It's not just the chain of the amino acids, but what's more important is how these amino acids actually fold.

They're very repetitive, and they're very rich in the amino acids glycine and alanine.

It also needs omega 3 fatty acids and iodine. This is a sinapse.

And what I took here from Wikipedia is these are some amino acids.

For insulin right here, this is 50 amino acids.

Triplets of those letters code for roughly 20 amino acids, such that there's a single letter designation for each of the amino acids.

And this one happens to be a good source of all 20 amino acids.

It has the chemical sequences of amino acids which says,

Actually, it's overkill, because we can actually have 64 combinations here, and there are only 20 amino acids, so we can even have redundant combinations code for different amino acids.

Dogs can distinguish two very similar fatty acids, extremely diluted caprylic acid and caproic acid.

Bacteria is in there, eating the same sugars, turning them into acids.

Now, genes are short segments of DNA that code for amino acids.

And you flip it over, and it's the amino acids with the pH at which they have different charges.

Some of these are multiple chains of amino acids kind of fitting together like a big puzzle, but some of them or just single chains of amino acids.

And the bad fats are things like trans fatty acids and processed food and saturated fats, which we find in meat.

And the reason why they talk about amino acids is because those are the building blocks of proteins.

And then the amino acids bond to each other when they're held like that close to each other.

Omega 3 fatty acids are very important to insulate that wiring in your brain.

Amazingly, proteins are the molecules composed of combinations of only 20 type amino acids.

Twenty different amino acids are pretty much the structure of all of our proteins.

But this right here is approximately 50 I forgot the exact number amino acids.

And then the chain of amino acids starts to bend around so they have all of these and it's actually a fascinating

like nucleic acids, like RNA and DNA, stay inside, develop, change, divide and do some of the processes that we call life.

Fatty acids with only single bonds are called saturated, and those with one or more double bonds are called unsaturated.

And tRNA molecules are these molecules that are attached to the they're almost like the trucks for the amino acids.

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So if you look at a protein, it's actually a chain of these amino acids and usually a fairly long chain.

And they had a look at what was in the soup, and they found amino acids, but nothing came out, there was no cell.

But first we have to go to the lab and learn a little bit about some chemicals called acids and some chemicals called bases.

What we can use are the smaller molecules that make up these proteins, the amino acids.