https://prado-cabrero.com/Sat, 15 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://prado-cabrero.com/que-hace-la-creatina/<p>Read this article in <a href="/creatine-the-why-and-the-how/">English</a></p> <p>No soy nutricionista, solo soy bioquímico. Por tanto, voy a hablar de la creatina desde mi punto de vista, de una forma que te permita distinguir cuándo otra persona está diciendo algo correcto o incorrecto sobre esta molécula.</p> <p>Lo que vas a leer a continuación …</p>Alfonso Prado-Cabrero, PhDSat, 15 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0100tag:prado-cabrero.com,2026-08-15:/que-hace-la-creatina/articleshttps://prado-cabrero.com/creatine-the-why-and-the-how/<p>Lee este artículo en <a href="/que-hace-la-creatina/">español</a></p> <p>I am not a nutritionist; I am just a biochemist. Therefore, I’ll talk about creatine from this point of view, in a way that you will be able to tell when someone else is saying something right or wrong about this molecule.</p> <p>What you …</p>Alfonso Prado-Cabrero, PhDWed, 10 Dec 2025 10:00:00 +0000tag:prado-cabrero.com,2025-12-10:/creatine-the-why-and-the-how/articleshttps://prado-cabrero.com/por-que-el-sol-no-tiene-vitamina-d-y-a-tu-gato-le-da-igual/<p>Read this story in <a href="/why-the-sun-doesnt-have-vitamin-d-and-your-cat-couldnt-care-less/">English</a></p> <h2>No llueve vitamina D</h2> <p>No, el sol no tiene vitamina D. No hay vitamina D cayendo del cielo. La vitamina D la hace tu cuerpo, concretamente tu piel. ¿Y por qué decimos que el sol tiene vitamina D? Bueno, pues porque nos hacemos un pequeño …</p>Alfonso Prado-Cabrero, PhDThu, 20 Nov 2025 10:00:00 +0000tag:prado-cabrero.com,2025-11-20:/por-que-el-sol-no-tiene-vitamina-d-y-a-tu-gato-le-da-igual/articleshttps://prado-cabrero.com/why-the-sun-doesnt-have-vitamin-d-and-your-cat-couldnt-care-less/<p>Lee esta historia en <a href="/por-que-el-sol-no-tiene-vitamina-d-y-a-tu-gato-le-da-igual/">español</a></p> <h2>It is not raining vitamin D</h2> <p>No, the sun doesn’t have vitamin D. Vitamin D doesn’t fall from the sky. Vitamin D is made by your body, specifically by your skin. Then, why do we say the sun has vitamin D? Well, because …</p>Alfonso Prado-Cabrero, PhDThu, 20 Nov 2025 10:00:00 +0000tag:prado-cabrero.com,2025-11-20:/why-the-sun-doesnt-have-vitamin-d-and-your-cat-couldnt-care-less/articleshttps://prado-cabrero.com/adonde-van-los-patos-de-central-park-en-invierno-2/<p>Read this article in <a href="/where-do-the-ducks-in-central-park-go-in-winter/">English</a> </p> <h2>El principio de precaución</h2> <p>En este punto de la vida, el cinturón de seguridad te lo pones siempre, ¿no? Esto se llama principio de precaución. Precaución para hacerte menos daño si te estrellas o precaución para que no te multen. El principio de precaución se …</p>Alfonso Prado-Cabrero, PhDWed, 05 Nov 2025 10:00:00 +0000tag:prado-cabrero.com,2025-11-05:/adonde-van-los-patos-de-central-park-en-invierno-2/articleshttps://prado-cabrero.com/where-do-the-ducks-in-central-park-go-in-winter/<p>Read this story in <a href="/adonde-van-los-patos-de-central-park-en-invierno-2/">Spanish</a></p> <h2>The Precautionary Principle</h2> <p>At this point in life, you always put on your seatbelt, don’t you? This is called the precautionary principle. Precaution to reduce harm if you crash, or precaution to avoid getting fined. The precautionary principle applies to all areas of life …</p>Alfonso Prado-Cabrero, PhDWed, 05 Nov 2025 10:00:00 +0000tag:prado-cabrero.com,2025-11-05:/where-do-the-ducks-in-central-park-go-in-winter/articleshttps://prado-cabrero.com/which-omega-3s-are-essential/<p>Lee este artículo en <a href="/que-omega-3-son-esenciales/">español</a></p> <h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Let me guess, you think that we need to take fish oil to stay healthy. Well, that is another achievement of marketing. The reality is that EPA and DHA, the super-famous components of fish oil, are not essential at all. While you are reading …</p>Alfonso Prado-Cabrero, PhDSat, 25 Oct 2025 10:00:00 +0100tag:prado-cabrero.com,2025-10-25:/which-omega-3s-are-essential/articleshttps://prado-cabrero.com/a-different-way-to-explain-the-structure-of-dna/<p>Lee este artículo en <a href="/la-estructura-del-adn-explicada-de-una-forma-diferente/">español</a></p> <h2>Introduction</h2> <p>DNA is made up of deoxynucleotides. Getting familiar with these building blocks and how they shape DNA opens the door to understanding genetics. In contrast to the classic approach, I believe that less chemical details plus plenty of animations helps to start getting familiar …</p>Alfonso Prado-Cabrero, PhDTue, 20 May 2025 10:00:00 +0100tag:prado-cabrero.com,2025-05-20:/a-different-way-to-explain-the-structure-of-dna/articleshttps://prado-cabrero.com/la-estructura-del-adn-explicada-de-una-forma-diferente/<p>Read this post in <a href="/a-different-way-to-explain-the-structure-of-dna/">English</a></p> <h2>Introduccion</h2> <p>El ADN está compuesto de desoxirribonucleótidos. Estas moléculas con un nombre tan complicado son los ladrillos del ADN, y comprender su forma y como se unen entre ellos es la puerta de entrada a la genetica. En contraste con las explicaciones clásicas, creo que …</p>Alfonso Prado-Cabrero, PhDTue, 20 May 2025 10:00:00 +0100tag:prado-cabrero.com,2025-05-20:/la-estructura-del-adn-explicada-de-una-forma-diferente/articleshttps://prado-cabrero.com/que-omega-3-son-esenciales/<p>Read this article in <a href="/which-omega-3s-are-essential/">English</a> </p> <h2>Introducción</h2> <p>Déjame adivinar: piensas que necesitamos tomar aceite de pescado para estar sanos. Pues bien, eso es otro logro del marketing. La realidad es que el EPA y el DHA, los archifamosos componentes del aceite de pescado, no son esenciales en absoluto. Mientras lees esto …</p>Alfonso Prado-Cabrero, PhDTue, 20 May 2025 10:00:00 +0100tag:prado-cabrero.com,2025-05-20:/que-omega-3-son-esenciales/articleshttps://prado-cabrero.com/gen-y-alelo-como-diferenciarlos/<h2>Nuestra informacion geneticá esta duplicada</h2> <p>Cada ser humano hereda 23 cromosomas de su madre y 23 cromosomas de su padre. Así, al nacer, normalmente recibes 46 cromosomas (Fig. 1). Como estos dos conjuntos de 23 cromosomas son esencialmente equivalentes, podemos emparejar cada cromosoma del padre con su cromosoma equivalente (u …</p>Alfonso Prado-Cabrero, PhDThu, 15 May 2025 10:00:00 +0100tag:prado-cabrero.com,2025-05-15:/gen-y-alelo-como-diferenciarlos/articleshttps://prado-cabrero.com/gene-and-allele-how-to-tell-the-difference/<h2>Our genetic information is in duplicate</h2> <p>Each human being inherits 23 chromosomes from their mother and 23 chromosomes from their father, making in total 46 chromosomes received (Fig. 1). As these two sets of 23 chromosomes are essentially equivalent, we can pair each chromosome from dad to its equivalent (or …</p>Alfonso Prado-Cabrero, PhDThu, 15 May 2025 10:00:00 +0100tag:prado-cabrero.com,2025-05-15:/gene-and-allele-how-to-tell-the-difference/articleshttps://prado-cabrero.com/haplossuficiency-and-haploinsufficiency/<p>Researchers classify a gene as haplosufficient (HS) or haploinsufficient (HI) after performing a lot of experiments and learning the following from them:</p> <ol> <li>Where is the gene working (in which organs or tissues).</li> <li>The minimum level of work that each of these organs or tissues need from the gene.</li> </ol> <h2>Haplosufficiency</h2> <p>Haplosufficiency …</p>Alfonso Prado-Cabrero, PhDSat, 10 May 2025 10:00:00 +0100tag:prado-cabrero.com,2025-05-10:/haplossuficiency-and-haploinsufficiency/articles