Feb 1, 2024 | Molecular health and nutrition
POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACIDS The composition of the cell membrane reflects the result of two factors related to the individual: diet and metabolism. Just by looking at this composition, it becomes clear that special attention should be paid to the choice of fats in...
Oct 27, 2023 | Molecular health and nutrition
Weight gain “We are what we eat” so says Ludwig Feuerbach and even before him Hippocrates; the awareness of a connection between our being and our food has very distant roots, although in a constantly moving and always too busy society, such as the one in...
Sep 8, 2023 | Molecular health and nutrition
Fatty acids, our beloved lipids The scientific knowledge of lipids is one of the oldest. Indeed, it has always been recognized how essential fats are to life, as fundamental constituents of cells. Lipids are made by the human body itself, but also taken in through the...
Jul 13, 2023 | Molecular health and nutrition
Scientific knowledge on LipiMagazine The LipiMagazine blog was started about 9 years ago to disseminate the scientific knowledge that belongs to our field, and to emphasize its great applicability in daily life. In particular, the applicability of membrane lipidomics...
Jun 27, 2023 | Molecular health and nutrition
Enzyme reactions and fatty acids The liver is the main organ deputed to the synthesis of fatty acids (lipogenesis); it has the “vocation” of initiating the cascade of enzymatic reactions provided for lipogenesis. Without fats, no cell can live, and for...
Jun 6, 2023 | Molecular health and nutrition
Molecular balance to maintain good liver function The liver is made up of cells, the hepatocytes, which are 80 percent of its total mass. These cells are veritable factories for the formation and transformation of molecules, whose mitochondria work by producing...
