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It's so funny that poison/toxin/venom is just shapes. You imagine them as like acid or heat or something, a physically destructive thing in some fundamental way but no. They are just the wrong shape and fit into places they shouldn't because of the shapes you have
@adam_kranz @norvid_studies There is this an interbacterial warfare system where one bacteria uses a needle to inject a molecule that looks very close to an important signalling molecule that bacteria use to control physiology but its electronic structure makes it sticky inside the enzyme pocket
@eigen_spectra Correct https://t.co/Z7dhcjijBk
@adam_kranz @algekalipso related
neuropeptides are just one example but it's funny when drugs are just…signals (as opposed to e.g. an antibody that blocks a receptor). it's close to being a magic spell — just say "abracadabra" at your brain in the right chemical language and you won't want to eat anymore!
@adam_kranz + the other side of germ theory is terrain theory. every perspective (human body) is like a kaleidoscope. certain shapes (pathogens) appear with certain configurations of the kaleidoscope (the bodies terrain/microbiome/mucus lvl/acidity/emotional state/ etc)