Tissues, Part 4 - Types of Connective Tissues: Crash Course A&P #5
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Technically, we’re all just meat. Yeah, you could say that what makes us human is our emotions, or thoughts, or memories, but physically, we’re not all that different from this. We’re used to thinking of meat as the muscle tissue that people cook and eat -- but the fact is, you could eat that stuff raw. A chicken breast or a steak or a pork chop is tender enough that it doesn’t need cooking. What does need cooking is all of the connective tissue that’s in and around the muscle, and gets in the way of our meal. So one of the main reasons humans began to roast, and boil, and bake meat in the first place, was to break down those connective tissues that we can’t chew, so we could get the meat. Now, you might’ve noticed that connective tissues kind of s...
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Technically, we’re all just meat. Yeah, you could say that what makes us human is our emotions, or thoughts, or memories, but physically, we’re not all that different from this. We’re used to thinking of meat as the muscle tissue that people cook and eat -- but the fact is, you could eat that stuff raw. A chicken breast or a steak or a pork chop is tender enough that it doesn’t need cooking. What does need cooking is all of the connective tissue that’s in and around the muscle, and gets in the way of our meal. So one of the main reasons humans began to roast, and boil, and bake meat in the first place, was to break down those connective tissues that we can’t chew, so we could get the meat. Now, you might’ve noticed that connective tissues kind of s...
