Dr. Glen Jeffery
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And Mike's thought processes were very, very clear.
We were on a long drive to do some research well out of London.
And that's a great time for...
because the journey starts at five in the morning.
It's a great time for gossip.
It's a great time for wild ideas, for streams of consciousness, which sometimes are very important in science.
And it was Mike who said to me, you know, if we make mitochondria work harder...
then they need glucose and they need oxygen.
So pause while Glenn, who's driving, kind of has to catch up on this idea.
I'm generally about a mile behind him intellectually.
And I went, yeah, yeah.
So he said, well, let's not make idiots of ourselves.
Let's do it with bumblebees.
So our first experiment was to increase... Of course, bumblebees.
Of course, why not?
Why...
First experiment was on bumblebees because it didn't involve people.
It was simple to do.
And all we did was we starved bumblebees overnight, gave them a standard blood glucose test.
No, it's not.