They analyzed four of the most common drivers of social - ecological change in indigenous lands: introduction of advanced health care, abandonment of
traditional religious and taboo beliefs, the
conversion of land outside the indigenous area for large - scale agriculture, and the introduction of external
food resources.
Its
traditional role in the body is to facilitate redox reactions: the transfer electrons from one molecule to another, promoting the
conversion of glucose from the
food we consume to energy molecules in the mitochondria - dense tissues such as the heart, brain, and muscles.