abstract:The adaptive response is a form of direct DNA repair in E. coli that is initiated against alkylation, particularly methylation, of guanine or thymine nucleotides or phosphate groups on the sugar-phosphate backbone of DNA.
In light of all this, they suggest that insulin resistance, like obesity, should be viewed not as a pathology but as an adaptiveresponse by the body to an excess of circulating lipids.
To digress for a moment, it was biologist Felix Meerson who showed that high-altitude chambers where oxygen supply is limited, triggers an adaptiveresponse that produces humans with profound mental capabilities and resistance against disease.
He said it seemed to show an adaptiveresponse to being treated well by our parents - women are making the underlying assumption people who look like their father might act in the same way as him.