These findings are important for understanding not only the normal workings
of the nervous system, but also
what goes wrong in certain diseases such as
type 2 diabetes, and the lethal action
of bacterial poisons such as tetanus
toxin and botulinum
toxin.
What we do know is that a significant portion
of environmental
toxins are stored in fat tissue, and animal products may have different
types of fat, but they still have fat nonetheless.