Metabolizing

adj, verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of metabolize form-of, gerund, participle, present
Adjective
  1. 1
    That serves to metabolize a specific class of compound

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"Half the population has the old hunter-gatherer genes for metabolizing glucose. This explains why diets are pure nonsense."

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