So having high blood sugar doesnât mean that you ate a lot of table sugar and the sugar is now in your bloodstream; it means you ate a lot of carbohydrates (from any source) and the sugar (glucose) is now in your bloodstream. Any digestible carbohydrate can raise blood sugar, although some raise it higher and faster than others.
If a mutation alters junk DNA, it doesnât do any harm because the junk isnât doing us any good to begin with. If our genome was 80 percent functionalâthe figure batted around when the ENCODE project results first came outâthen we should be extinct.
Related: Eating Your Way to A Better Sex Life. To those of us who failed sophomore biology, having your Y-DNA put under the microscope can sound intimidating. But itâs surprisingly easier and, frankly, much cooler than trolling Ancestry.com like your Aunt Wandaâs been doing for the past decade. All you do is swab your cheek, mail the collection kit to a company like Family Tree DNA in Houston, and wait for an e-mail.