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by hinkley 660 days ago
I’m reading Silent Spring, which was published in 1962. We already knew then that sugar to ATP transition in the mitochondria is a multiple step process to oxidize the sugar and produce ATP, and different pollutants or injuries could interrupt any of those steps and cause major problems.

And relevant to this conversation: we knew that a breakdown in these stages of cellular metabolism could result in tumors.