Dr. Zach Bush

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The Joe Rogan Experience · #2529 - Zach Bush · 22 Jul 2026 podcast

That's a carbon bond.

When you hear of a carbohydrate, that's a whole string of carbons that's storing sunlight.

a fatty acid, another long string of carbons holding sunlight.

So the innovation of life was, can we store enough energy that it can be released in these exponential levels of energy per cubic centimeter?

And the more that life innovated that process, the more complex life got.

So bacteria, single-celled organisms, can't really collaborate, but they can build an ecosystem of nutrients.

fungi figured out that they could actually get way more fermentation if they exuded the enzymes out of their body to make the whole nature around them the stomach.

And so they outsourced the fermentation process to the soil around them.

And suddenly there was so much more energy available.

So they started to build whole networks of single-celled organisms that were now collaborating.

We call these hyphae and pseudohyphae.

the mycelial network of the fungal kingdom, they can go for miles.

And they're still single-celled organisms, but they're collaborating now because they have so much more energy because they're doing all that fermentation outside the body.

So they're not limited to what can be done inside the cell.

The next innovation that just blew everything out was the innovation of the mitochondria.

So that little mitochondria represented up in that glowing cell right above the baby there, mitochondria are small bacteria that live inside human cells.

The average human cell has 200 mitochondria.

A neuron has 2,000 mitochondria in its neural head.

2,000 of those little bacteria living inside of a human cell.

And that's actually two microbes put into one.

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