Dr. Arthur Janov
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 Amidst a long discussion on the communication among molecules, McTaggart states: "According to Benveniste's theory, two molecules are then tuned into each other, even at long distance, and resonate to the same frequency." It seems that all molecules have their own specific frequency.
Famed neuroscientist Karl H. Pribram found that when we first notice something, certain frequencies resonate among neurons in the brain even below our conscious-awareness. These neurons send information to other concerned parts of the brain to form memory. |
Dr. Steven R. Gundry
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 SWEET DECEPTION
Sugar is a generic term for simple carbohydrate molecules that are the main energy-storage molecules for plants. Link one or more sugar molecules and you get a form of sugar once referred to as starch, but usually now called a complex carbohydrate. Rice, wheat, potatoes, and beets are just some complex carbs that break down into sugar when they're digested. |
Stacy Malkan
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 Similar to the biomimicry lesson about self-cleaning strategies, green chemistry seeks to build the desired functionality into molecules at the beginning of the design process rather than adding molecules later — the fewer expensive additions, the better. Amy Cannon's light-reactive polymer, for example, is inherently flexible so it doesn't require extra plasticizers that could shed off or leach out into people's bodies. |
Michael Pollan
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 It makes good theoretical sense: These molecules (which plants produce to protect themselves from the highly reactive forms of oxygen they produce during photosynthesis) soak up the free radicals in our bodies, which can damage DNA and initiate cancers. At least that's how it seems to work in a test tube. Yet as soon as you remove these crucial molecules from the context of the whole foods they're found in, as we've done in creating antioxidant supplements, they don't seem to work at all. |
Frederic Vagnini, M.D. and Barry Fox, Ph.D.
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 Olsalazine solves this problem by combining two 5-aminosalicylic acid molecules. (When combined, molecules of 5-aminosalicylic acid don't cause the problems they do when they're free and single.) Inside the large intestines, bacteria split the two molecules, so they can get to work.
This action makes olsalazine useful in preventing flare-ups of ulcerative colitis.
Possible Side Effects
The drug's more common side effects include abdominal pain and diarrhea. |
Tom Bohager
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 One of the remarkable things about the immune system is that it can recognize many millions of distinctive nonself molecules and respond by producing antibodies that match and counteract each of the nonself molecules, or antigens.
An antigen is any substance capable of triggering an immune response. It can be a bacterium, a virus, or even a portion of one of these organisms. Tissues or cells from another individual's body also register as antigens with the immune system. |
Richard Bartlett
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 The cells are made of carbon-based molecules, and molecules are composed of atoms.
Now, at this point our linear model of physicality starts to get into some trouble. The nucleus of the atom has two structural components known as the proton and the neutron. The electron circulates in probability orbits, as I explained earlier. It is thought that when scientists attempt to measure or observe the "actual" orbit, the act of making that measurement collapses all of the possibility waves into a probable orbit. |
Alex Vilenkin
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 At temperatures above a few hundred degrees kelvin,* the bonds holding atoms together inside molecules are not strong enough to withstand the heat, and the molecules decompose into separate atoms. Further increase of temperature leads to a progressive breakup of atoms. First, at about 3000 degrees kelvin, electrons are stripped off the atomic nuclei,3 then at a billion degrees or so the nuclei fragment into protons and neutrons (collectively called nucleons), and finally at about a trillion degrees the nucleons break apart into their elementary constituents, called quarks. |
| Similarly, the molecules in an expanding box will slow down on each reflection from the walls. The temperature is proportional to the average energy of the molecules and will therefore decrease in the course of expansion. Of course, there are no moving walls in the expanding universe, but particles are reflected off one another, and the effect on the temperature is the same. The universe was getting progressively colder as it expanded. Thus, if we go back in time, the universe gets hotter and hotter, and it becomes infinitely hot if we extrapolate all the way back to the singularity. |
Mark Schapiro
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 Chemists are trained to create new molecules. . . . We've gotten pretty good at identifying problems with chemicals, whether the combination of molecules creates carcinogens or neurotoxins. But what we're not doing is talking about how to make that molecule not do that." By making comparative toxicity data available to the public and by edging the most dangerous substances off the market, the Europeans are providing an important stimulus for that research, Warner said. "The function of government is to offer incentives through regulations. |
Michael Pollan
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| These special molecules, which at first were isolated from foods and then later synthesized in a laboratory, could cure people of nutritional deficiencies such as scurvy or beriberi almost overnight in a convincing demonstration of reductive chemistry's power. Beginning in the 1920s, vitamins enjoyed a vogue among the middle class, a group not notably afflicted by beriberi or scurvy. But the belief took hold that these magic molecules also promoted growth in children, long life in adults, and, in a phrase of the time, "positive health" in everyone. (And what would "negative health" be exactly? |
Stacy Malkan
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| Similar to the biomimicry lesson about self-cleaning strategies, green chemistry seeks to build the desired functionality into molecules at the beginning of the design process rather than adding molecules later — the fewer expensive additions, the better. Amy Cannon's light-reactive polymer, for example, is inherently flexible so it doesn't require extra plasticizers that could shed off or leach out into people's bodies. |
Richard Bartlett
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| The cells are made of carbon-based molecules, and molecules are composed of atoms.
Now, at this point our linear model of physicality starts to get into some trouble. The nucleus of the atom has two structural components known as the proton and the neutron. The electron circulates in probability orbits, as I explained earlier. It is thought that when scientists attempt to measure or observe the "actual" orbit, the act of making that measurement collapses all of the possibility waves into a probable orbit. |
Bottom Line Health
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| Starches, even more complex molecules, which are made up of thousands of linked glucose molecules.
Bread contains carbohydrates, but it also contains protein, fat, vitamins, minerals and other nutrients.
Milk isn't generally thought of as a carbohydrate, but it contains significant amounts of lactose.. .as well as protein, fat, calcium and, of course, water.
CARBS AND YOUR BODY
The digestive process converts carbohydrates into glucose (blood sugar). That's the basic "fuel" used by every cell in the body. |
C. W. Randolph, M.D.
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 This means that the molecules of progesterone suspended in the cream have exactly the same molecular structure as those produced by the human body. The body recognizes, receives, and utilizes these molecules. The parent molecule for progesterone comes from a substance known as diosgenin, which is found in soy or Mexican wild yam. Many products on the market today containing soy or Mexican wild yam claim to be a "natural progesterone"; however, until the diosgenin is converted from its original molecular structure, the body will not recognize it. |
John Robbins
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 The water molecules became part of that organism's body, and then flowed back into the world as blood, sweat, urine, and exhaled water vapor."
Noting that every drop of water contains an enormous number of water molecules (about 3,000,000,000,000,000,000,000), he continues,
"Fill a glass with water. This glass that you hold in your hand today has more than ten million water molecules that passed through the body of the buffalo, more than ten million water molecules that passed through the dinosaur and more than ten million water molecules that passed through one of our African ancestors. |
James Howard Kunstler
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 The chains and clusters of atoms are called molecules. These molecules are the basic building blocks of compounds, in this case hydrocarbons. The lightest hydrocarbons, such as methane and propane gases, are made of molecules containing very few hydrogen and carbon atoms. Liquid hydrocarbons, such as gasoline and lubricating oils, contain more atoms per molecule. The very heavy hydrocarbons, such as tar and paraffin wax, contain more complex clusters and chains of hydrogen and carbon atoms and come in the form of semisolids and solids. |
Charles Barber
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 It is the suspicion, now apparently confirmed in the view of the public, that all our behavior finally comes down to molecules and transmission between those molecules and that psychiatry in some profound way is starting to unlock those mysteries. It is the all too hasty belief that biological psychiatry has emerged into something akin to physics and chemistry, reassuring in its rules and clarity. As Paul Rabinow, a Berkeley anthropologist put it, "More and more stories about who we are and how we live are becoming molecular. |
Tom Bohager
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| Every cell in the body carries distinctive molecules that distinguish it as part of the body. This marker is its passport, if you will, telling the immune system it has the right to dwell within the body. Normally the body's defenses do not attack tissues that carry such a marker. Immune cells coexist peaceably with other cells in a state known as self-tolerance.
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Foreign molecules, too, carry distinctive markers, characteristic shapes that protrude from their surfaces. |
Brigitte Mars, A.H.G.
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 When gymnema is taken before eating, the molecules of one of its constituents, gymnemic acid, fill the sugar-taste receptor sites on the tongue for one to two hours, thus preventing the taste buds from reacting to the sugar molecules in food and blocking the taste of sugar; with the taste of sugar gone, the desire to eat sugar subsides. Gymnema also helps stabilize blood sugar levels, enhances insulin production, promotes the regeneration of beta cells that release insulin into the pancreas, and inhibits adrenaline from stimulating the liver to produce glucose. |
Bottom Line Health
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| Starches, even more complex molecules, which are made up of thousands of linked glucose molecules.
Bread contains carbohydrates, but it also contains protein, fat, vitamins, minerals and other nutrients.
Milk isn't generally thought of as a carbohydrate, but it contains significant amounts of lactose.. .as well as protein, fat, calcium and, of course, water.
CARBS AND YOUR BODY
The digestive process converts carbohydrates into glucose (blood sugar). That's the basic "fuel" used by every cell in the body. |
Dr. Arthur Janov
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| Evolution has sited many different receptor molecules on the surface of nerve cell, each of which will stick to only one specific molecule."7 The result is that nerve cells have a guide that directs them toward connection with other cells. All that is required for connection is that other nerve cells have matching receptor molecules. The cells are able to ignore all other nonmatching nerve cells.
Darling goes on to point out that these cells establish a "skeletal nervous system upon which all subsequent fibers can build. |
Dr. Sharon Moalem
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 Free radicals are essentially molecules or atoms with unpaired electrons—and unpaired electrons look to pair up. Unfortunately, as far as your body is concerned, those electrons look for love in all the wrong places. As the unpaired electrons seek to pair with electrons in other molecules, they cause chemical reactions. Those reactions can disrupt cellular chemistry and lead to the cell's early death. That's one of the reasons free radicals are thought to be a major cause of aging. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Just remember this:
Products sitting on the shelves at retailers exchange molecules. Fruits and vegetables absorb molecules in the air, and solvent chemicals can go right through plastic containers. When you buy something at a store, you're buying a little bit of everything in the store! It's another reason to stop shopping at retailers that sell pesticides, toxic soaps, laundry products, solvents and cleaners. Get your food from a FOOD store, and make sure it's real food (not that processed garbage).
By the way, you can read the original NRDC press release at: http://www.nrdc. |
David R. Montgomery
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 Buried too deep or cooked too fast and the organic molecules burn off; trapped too shallow or not for long enough and the muck never turns into oil. Finally, an impermeable layer needs to seal the oil in a porous layer of rock from which it can be recovered. Then somebody has to find it and get it out of the ground. It takes millions of years to produce a batrel of oil; we use millions of barrels a day. There is no question that we will run out of oil—the only question is when.
Estimates for when petroleum production will peak range from before 2020 to about 2040. |
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