How Controlling The Flow Of Electrons Is The Chemical Secret To Life
The basis of all life stems from the electromagnetic force ebbing and flowing in the interactions between atoms and the flow between matter and energy.
One hundred eighteen elements exist in our known universe, and when two different atoms come together, it creates chemical novelty for the magic of life's diversity.
For example, when the metal sodium is joined at the hip with chlorine, a nonmetal, we create the salt of the earth.
However, life's chemistry does not happen without the flow of electrons that enable the atoms to be bound together or to be broken apart.
All observations made in this physical world are due to protons and electrons interacting with all of the known elements through the electromagnetic forces that will either unite or divide.
For clinical observation, especially in a living human organism, it would be difficult to measure the electrons and protons quantitatively.
However, we do have the technologies to assess and observe the protons and electrons indirectly, and that is through the cations, which are your minerals.
The best test to evaluate these cation minerals is the hair tissue mineral analysis (HTMA) which gives the practitioner insight to assess and interpret the quantity and the quality of the nutrient minerals.
A hair test reveals the status of 5 significant macrominerals including calcium, magnesium, sodium, potassium, and phosphorus, which are the five pillars of all physiology in the body.
Also, on an HTMA, we see the trace minerals (Cu, Fe, Zn, Mn, Mo, Co, Cr), which are the workhorses of cells involved in just about every crucial enzymatic function needed for health.
However, if we want to gain a deeper understanding of the nutrient minerals, that means we must understand the anti-nutrients, which are toxic metals such as Hg, Cd, arsenic, Pd, etc.
It is these toxic metals that will either block or impede the nutrient minerals from getting to their target sites inside the cell through the channel membranes.
Just one minuscule ion of mercury can block thousands of atoms of zinc from getting inside the cell where it belongs.
Try to make stomach acid, digestive juices, or try breaking down CO2, lactic acid, and alcohol in a zinc-deficient state!
It is the variation of specific mineral levels, essential ratios, and toxic metals that allow us indirectly to observe and gauge the electron and proton interactions, through the mineral window.
In fact, we could arguably say that controlling the flow of electrons is the chemical secret to life, as all chemical reactions are about the electrons.
So, we could say distinctly that the uniting force that determines the quality of all metals is that they all conduct electricity because of their electron-donating and accepting properties.
It is this chemical reactivity that allows elements to join chemically into compounds that are responsible for the transformation of the elements of the cosmos into the materials of earth and, ultimately, the materials of life.
We know that all metals come in a variety of different sizes, shapes, configurations, strengths, and valances.
Some metals may be more malleable like copper, silver, gold, and lead, and some metals show more magnetism, such as the ferromagnetic ones like iron, cobalt, molybdenum, and nickel.
Some metals can stay solid at very high temperatures like tungsten, clocking in at 3000 degrees celsius, before it melts.
Whereas metals like mercury melt at room temperature, and gallium melts at 86 degrees, which would be liquid on a warm day in your hand.
This is the nature and mystery of minerals.
If they have different properties, then, of course, they also have different personalities.
This is where minerals astonish our curiosity beyond the physical.
This opens up pandora's box into the realms of cosmology, planets, and stars—intriguing and twisting our rational minds as they give us a glimpse into our psychology and physiology!
From an emotional perspective, it helps us assess our behaviors and interactions in our lives, especially when we detect deficiencies, or nutrients in excess, and/or toxic metals that usually bring out the worst in us.
Even nutrient minerals can behave like toxic metals when they bioaccumulate in excess in their oxidized state.
Stay tuned for part two!