stackyFACTSThe nerve cells running down your spine to your toes are absurdly long, meaning their internal supply chains are a total nightmare.
The nerve cells running down your spine to your toes are absurdly long, meaning their internal supply chains are a total nightmare. If the cell body creates a vital protein, it has to physically travel down the axon via slow molecular transport mechanisms. It can literally take days for essential biological supplies to trudge down a single leg nerve, making your nervous system one of the most sluggish delivery networks in the natural world.
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