For example, why did zinc, of all things, start getting utilized by brain and prostate tissue in humans?

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    10 months ago

    I’m guessing the main reason is “why not”. It’s in the environment, and one day some critter mutated a new process that involved it.

    It’s not just complex life, either. Bacteria use all kinds of strange elements in various enzymes and complexes.