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RE: The More Alcohol You Drink The More Bacterial Cell Wall Derived Endotoxins Enter Your Blood
Yes, completely agreed. okay for example :
Endotoxins are lipopolysaccharide compounds which are present in the cell membranes of gram-negative bacteria.
I think you could have explained the term lipopolysaccharide ?
I don't know really. I am a complete noob in scientific matters but maybe you might have viewers who already understand this :) Really hope I could help you. Cheers @justtryme90
Hmm, you're right. I had actually considered going into more detail about those compounds, I had a nice picture of what they look like ready and decided not to do that in retrospect.
Lipopolysaccharide is a molecule composed of two parts, a fatty acid part (lipo) and a carbohydrste (sugar) chain part (polysaccharide). The fatty acid basically is a big greasy tail that sticks into the cell membrane, with a non fatty water loving head at the top , which is on the outer edge of the cell. It is onto this head part that the carbohydrate chain is attached.
Here is Wikipedia's image, see little fatty parts at the bottom, onto which all sorts of sugars are stacked. I think this is all of the basic info that is necessary to get a handle as to what they are.