In a recent article by Veronique Greenwood, entitled "It's all in the rings" Greenwood informs readers of new bacteria that live off of caffiend and eplains why humans cannot.
The article states, "While humans show the caffeine derivatives, the most simple of whice is known as Xanthine, the door, the bacteria hang onto them, chopping down the rigngs to their component elements and havervesting energy. Humans get energy from many things, and most people say that they live off of caffeine, but it says here thats not possible.
The article also states," The specific rason caffeine isn't an energy source for us, thus, is that we don't have the gear to digest derivatives further." These bacteria have a power to digist the derivatives further and hang on to and harvest the energy.
Lastly the article states, "As Mani Subramanian, Summer's adviser, points out, 90% of the cells in our body are bacterial, and research into the human microbiome, our totat coplement of bacteria, has revealed that we are veritable rainforstes when it comes to bacterial diversity." We can live off of many things but caffeine just is not one of them, even though our body is 90% bacteria.
Every day after we finish with out medical classes at the college we always stop and get coffee, and one of my friends always says, I could not go the rest of the day without my coffee.
It makes you wonder some day in the future if it would be possible to live off of something like this, just because we have a certain cell in our body. Anything is possible in this day and age.
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