The Life Battery It appeared to Selye that there is within each organism a sort of life battery that stores life current in a way similar to the way an electric battery stores electric current--a battery with a limited capacity, that runs down when used without recharging. Selye wondered what biochemical basis of this life battery might be, and whether there was a way to recharge the battery when it ran down. Selye did his major work in the 1940s. He was a doctor, not a biochemist, and biochemical techniques that are common now were not known then, so Selye had no way of answering his own question. It remained for others who followed to elucidate the biochemical and molecular mechanisms underlying the experimental observations that Selye made on tissue, organ, and organism levels. The analogy of the life battery turns out to be a good one. A battery has two poles, positive and negative, between which currents of energy will flow under suitable conditions, that is, when the circuit is completed. This happens to be true for our life battery as well. It too, has two poles. Between these two poles, our life energy flows when our circuit is completed. Biochemically, the poles of our life battery are good oils and good proteins---oils rich in EFAs, and sulphur-rich proteins: oils containing many slightly negatively charged cis- double bonds and proteins containing many positively charged sulphdryl groups. On our life battery, good oils are the negative pole and good proteins the positive pole. Between these two poles, our life currents, produced by metabolism of carbohydrates and other molecules, flow when the circuit of essential nutrients is complete. In biological terms, on could call good oils the female pole, because eggs and female bodies contain more of these oils, and good proteins the male pole, because sperm and male bodies contain more sulpher and more of these proteins. But both male & females need both poles for health. Present-day diets are usually proetin-rich but lacking in good oils. The RESULT OF AN UNBALANCED LIFE BATTERY IS LOWERED CAPACITY TO WITHSTAND STRESS, EASIER BREAKDOWN OF HEALTH, AND DEGENERATION. The more we are stimulated and stressed, the more life current must flow between the poles of the battery, the more GOOD OILS & GOOD PROTEINS are used up, and the sooner our battery runs down. Oils & proteins must be continually replaced through foods to recharge our battery, starting at birth and ending only at death. With deficiency comes weakness, then sickness. The severity depends on the severity of the deficiency. We require rest then, a chance to reorganize our resources, and good nutrition to replenish low supplies. The cure for a run run-down life battery (nutrient deficiency and sickness) involves increased intake of good oils,, good proteins, and co-factors through the use of foods that are rich in these nutrients. Continuing good health requires maintaining OPTIMUM intake of all essential nutrients, to provide for the demands on our bodies of a changing environment with fluctuating levels of stress. Protein and oils are the two most abundant substances in our cells and those of all animals, plants, and single-celled organisms. We find them together in cell membranes, in lipoproteins that carry fats and cholesterol in our blood, and in membranes of subcellular organelles. They form the main structures and functional components of our entire body. In Health-John (: EASTMANS FITNESS
Posted on: Sat, 17 Jan 2015 00:17:45 +0000
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