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LOS ANGELES – “There are mitochondria inside cells that produce energy. So they are like organelles or parts of the cell. “The cells in which they were born. We found that they could move between cells. And when they moved between cells, they shifted the metabolism of the moving cells.”

he spoke so the music rang out when he spoke at soccer practicea man during football practice speaking cell on request.

“We[at UCLA]are pioneers and leaders in that field, which means we understand how to do it artificially, and we’re trying to understand how it actually happens naturally. And if we can help that, we can help people who are suffering from cancer, undergoing chemotherapy, or who have other debilitating illnesses to help improve their energy and energy levels and fight disease. We can help.

UCLA’s Michael Teitell says the list of titles can tire typists, just returned from a seminar in Singapore, praises the mighty Singapore Airlines, relieves a bit of jet lag, and is in a hurry had just left. I attended soccer practice on Saturday morning. Not only soccer practice, but also late April, spring soccer practicewhere only hardcore lives.

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He’s not really hardcore. He served on the library committee before becoming a representative of the university’s athletic committee, and then tried to join the admissions committee, only to find that he was full. During that time he was director of a cancer center and professor of pathology and other important matters. He calls his sports memories “more diffuse than concrete.” He commits humanity by mistakenly remembering at least two aspects of the first World Series he saw on television (a stifling sweep of the Dodgers by the Orioles in 1966), and the Dodgers’ last three titles. I’m a little lamenting what happened in the short seasons (1981, 1988, 2020), only to find out that 1988 wasn’t shortened. (“You fixed me. Thank you,” he said.)

And he loves soccer practice, but not in that fanboy, selfie-with-the-coach kind of way. “This is society. This is not something else. This is it.” .”

In fact he is something else. He is a devotee of college sports and believes in a skyscraper-strewn country landscape of acceptable cynicism. He focuses on vitality, others on television deals and reorganizations that rob vitality. He comes from academia, yet does all of this with a more practical voice than Crusader.

Indeed, midsummer news that UCLA and Southern California would abandon Pac-12 for a financial merger with Big Ten, in a move set to eliminate debt, glamor, and sleep schedules for athletes, would make him It can trip you up, or at least put you on pause.

“I’m really happy about this news,” he said via a spokesperson in late August, adding, “More resources for mental health, nutrition, academic services, career development, athletic support, and NIL opportunities. ” was quoted.

He’s not as happy as he usually is about heading to Oregon on Saturday, where the football Bruins are 6-0, ranked 9th, and 10th.

He said the team was “playing really well against tough opponents and doing a lot of hard work”, adding an exclamation mark to that, declaring “I’m looking forward to the second half of the season”.

“Go Bruins!” he concluded.

How to measure, except for the exclamation point.

“So, cells have two ways of producing energy. One way is by burning sugars and fats to make ATP, the energy currency within the cell. ATP powers enzymatic reactions, And life is basically a biochemical reaction inside a cell, and that’s one form, another way is It takes lipids or sugars and feeds them into these organelles, called mitochondria, which produce about 18 times the amount of energy they produce through another process called glycolysis. can ruin cells and ruin our function and the workings of life, so our goal is to understand how organelles called mitochondria work and how they function. It’s about understanding how well it works.”

“It’s a fun job,” he concludes. “Good job.”

And now you are practicing soccer.

“I look at culture,” he said. “I’m looking at the kids. I’m looking at the coach. I’m watching people interact. I’m trying to get a sense of what the mind, the environment, the excitement is like. I’m curious, so I’m looking into a little technique, for example, how do I catch a ball from a throwing machine? It’s mostly the culture.For the most part, do these kids look happy?Do they look engaged?These coaches seem engaged and involved. Is it good for your health?”

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In the 1980s, during my fulfilling days as a student, graduate student, and more at UCLA, the Pac-8 became the Pac-10, and long before it became the Pac-10 or the Pac, it became the Pac-12. -14 or Pac-16, he wasn’t really a student studying, lurking in stadiums, face painting, etc. He coached his two primo football players I scraped up extra money by doing. Flipper Anderson has caught 267 of his NFL passes, including a big pass for the Rams, and Terry Tuumy recently became athletic director at Fresno State. He began to discover parallels between the motivation of a scientist and the motivation of an athlete. He began to solidify his view that school and sport foster each other. “Student-athletes tend to perform better in the season because their time management skills are at their peak … and they are tired. But I think their attention is on the details, and that’s when they do their best.

He noticed how much better his teenage daughter was on the high school softball team. He noticed college athletes performing in front of crowds while navigating formative years, including crises like “boyfriend or girlfriend or just broke up with boyfriend or girlfriend.” He noticed how college athletes successfully transitioned into fields such as medicine. Especially when it comes to advising them to change their egos, as is the case with high jumpers.

In all of it, he feels separately, quietly, and occasionally on the UCLA team’s bus or plane feeling something perhaps different than all other riders. In Philadelphia’s narrow loss to North Carolina in the Sweet 16, or in Indianapolis in the national semifinals against Gonzaga in the 2021 classic with no losers, or in unforgettable softball against Florida State in the 2018 World Cup. At the finish you will see that it is fleeting. The series in Oklahoma, which he followed from afar, was okay, a little longer.

He thinks it’s all good.

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