{"id":171454,"date":"2023-09-06T14:24:03","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T19:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/how-does-your-body-turn-food-into-fuel-scientists-tracked-individual-atoms-to-find-out"},"modified":"2023-09-06T14:24:03","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T19:24:03","slug":"how-does-your-body-turn-food-into-fuel-scientists-tracked-individual-atoms-to-find-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/how-does-your-body-turn-food-into-fuel-scientists-tracked-individual-atoms-to-find-out","title":{"rendered":"How Does Your Body Turn Food Into Fuel? Scientists Tracked Individual Atoms to Find Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-does-your-body-turn-food-into-fuel-scientists-tracked-individual-atoms-to-find-out2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Inside our bodies at every moment, our cells are orchestrating a complex dance of atoms and molecules that uses energy to create, distribute and deploy the substances on which our lives depend.<\/p>\n<p>And it\u2019s not just in <em>our<\/em> bodies: all animals carry out this dance of metabolism, and it turns out none of them do it quite the same way.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1126\/sciadv.adg1549\">new research<\/a> published in <em>Science Advances<\/em>, we analysed specific carbon atoms in amino acids \u2013 the building blocks of proteins \u2013 to discover distinctive fingerprints of the metabolism of different species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inside our bodies at every moment, our cells are orchestrating a complex dance of atoms and molecules that uses energy to create, distribute and deploy the substances on which our lives depend. And it\u2019s not just in our bodies: all animals carry out this dance of metabolism, and it turns out none of them do [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}