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Life in the Cell Begins at the Edge of Death, Part I: An Essay on the History and Science of Metabolic Science and Nutrition, Fuel Substrate Utilization, and Biochemistry

by | Dec 13, 2015 | Wizard Level

“Well, you’re pretty good ol’ son, but sit down in that chair right there and let me show you how it’s done.”

Johnny’s instructions to the Devil, before he won his golden fiddle.

 

Part 1: Vinegar is the Only Fuel for Metabolism*

*See my reply to comment # 1 if you are attempting to refute or disagree with this.

MILK-FUELI’m going to show you the only way the human body uses food as fuel, which comes down to knowing the body burns only one fuel. This fuel is vinegar – technically called acetic acid.

About acetic acid: You drink acetic acid when you drink kombucha. After you eat and food moves past your stomach, the gut flora living in your intestines transform specific types of carbohydrates into acetic acid; most of this is immediately burned. Then much later, deeper at the cell level of your body, acetic acid fuels metabolism.

Seeing metabolism work in plain and simple physical terms starting from the sequential breakdown of food into this ‘only fuel’ will completely reform how you perceive food, health, and exercise science.

I present to you dried milk fueling a train as the first of several food combustion experiments from the past that allow me to explain the physical rules of nutrition and exercise science.

Physical experiments like burning milk briquettes may be used to teach many useful concepts, such as how metabolism of food is really a ‘controlled process of molecular death’. Now, the reason this is useful is because the ‘molecular breakdown of food into fuel’ approach provides a grand unification theory – which means it provides the most simple way to learn how food, metabolism, exercise, and healing all relate to one another.

Before going any further, the most important thing to know is what I mean by ‘controlled process of molecular death’.

As long as you eat food to live – and right now within your body – complex food molecules are breaking down into simpler units – much the same way the complex molecules of your body will breakdown irreversibly after your death. There is a crucial difference of course between life and death. Dead animals do not ‘reverse death’ – but in a sense we do – because our cells ‘control’ the molecular breakdown to a point where we stop it. The point or moment this happens is when the final fuel, acetic acid burns.

So, life within the cell does begin at the ‘edge of death’ in a metaphorical and literal sense – because:

  • Life itself is sustained by endless reversal of continuous molecular breakdown – aerobically powered by acetic acid burning within your body.

In other words, metabolism begins when molecular breakdown of food into acetic acid is complete – and at this moment… acetic acid ‘goes up in smoke’. Imagine seeing something materialize onstage before your eyes in a magic act – and at the moment it appears, it vaporizes – it burns. And like burning any fuel such as dried milk, wood, or coal, the basic formula is:

  • Fuel + O2 –> CO2 + Heat + Water.

Therefore the entire picture of metabolism can be understood in 2 steps:

  1. Beginning with eating, the two complex molecules carbohydrates and fat eventually breakdown into acetic acid.
  2. The fuel burns: Acetic acid + O2 –> CO2 + Heat + Water.

Main Points:

  • Fat and carbohydrates breakdown into a small molecule – the fuel that actually burns – acetic acid.
  • Aerobic metabolism, prana, and cellular respiration are all the same thing, namely, everlasting combustion of fuel.

Understanding metabolism and nutrition in terms of combusting fuel – whether the fuel is coal, dried milk, glucose, fat, or wood – is the ultimate purpose of this first lesson. Luckily you already know intuitively how a fire works, so I’m not teaching you much besides how a fire within your body scientifically works.

 

Visualize Acetic Acid

acetic acid ethanol

Ignore the similarity between the structures of vinegar and alcohol. For now, you just need to know:

Acetic acid is made from 2 carbon atoms.

Plugging alcohol into the picture of metabolism explains many more connections between food and how the body works. I’ll show you later.

Next, Part 2: Food is the Source of Fuel, not the Transformed ‘Broken Down’ Fuel Your Body Actually Burns.

 

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