Big brains, meat, tuberculosis and the nicotinamide switches: Co-evolutionary relationships with modern repercussions on longevity and disease?
Meat eating has been an important trigger for human evolution however the responsible component in meat has not been clearly identified. Here we propose that the limiting factors for expanding brains and increasing longevity were the micronutrient nicotinamide (vitamin B3) and the metabolically rela...
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Churchill Livingstone
2014
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