Carp can switch over to an anaerobic metabolism and quietly exhale booze until the situation gets better.
An interesting thing about carp is that they can go into anoxic hibernation and switch to an anaerobic metabolism based on converting glycogen to ethanol.
The waste ethanol is diffused out the gills
Carp can switch over to an anaerobic metabolism and quietly exhale booze until the situation gets better.
In theory, if you spent a few thousand years breeding carp for it, you could use them to make booze.
They'd be enormous, almost entirely glycogen deposits with a fish added as an afterthought.
You, a human, have only about 100 grams of glycogen in your liver, about 400 more grams in your skeletal muscles. Call it 500 grams total.
Carp can be 12% glycogen by weight.
A 75kg human would need to have 9kg of glycogen to match their carp friend.
https://t.co/Bt29kS7pO5
Call it 18 days worth. You'd need a lot more if you wanted to beat your carp friend at holding your breaths.
You currently do this in the liver, by further metabolizing ethanol into acetaldehyde.
You do this completely differently depending on whether you're a fetus or not.
https://t.co/gsnliVwr3G
You're gonna need a bigger liver or a better way
You're gonna scare your carp friends by pissing vinegar at them.
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