Pam Montgomery
See book keywords and concepts |
 Each has its own unique function, and yet both are very similar in that they are the carriers of what gives life—chlorophyll is necessary for photosynthesis and hemoglobin is the red blood cell that carries oxygen to every cell in the human body. Hemoglobin's relationship to chlorophyll is that hemoglobin is a respiring, iron-containing protein that takes the oxygen we breathe, produced by photosynthesis, for which chlorophyll is critical, and distributes it throughout our bodies. |
Lynne Mctaggart
See book keywords and concepts |
 Light, of course, was present in plants, the source of energy used during photosynthesis. When we eat plant foods, it must be, he thought, that we take up the photons and store them. Say that we consume some broccoli. When we digest it, it is metabolized into carbon dioxide (C02) and water, plus the light stored from the sun and present in photosynthesis. We extract the C02 and eliminate the water, but the light, an electromagnetic wave, must get stored. |
Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey
See book keywords and concepts |
 They started with cucumber seeds, and they indeed found light, but, they reasoned, perhaps the light was a by-product of photosynthesis. So they grew cucumber seeds in the dark and tested them under conditions that would guarantee that photosynthesis would have no effect. They still found light. What's more, they found coherent light.
As previously explained, it is thought that quantum processes give way to classical ones in the hot, wet environment of the body because heat and chaotic influences from the environment lead to decoherence of the quantum signals. |
Lynne Mctaggart
See book keywords and concepts |
| They decided that with their next test - some potatoes - they would grow the seedling plants in the dark, so they could not undergo photosynthesis. Nevertheless, when placed in the photomultiplier, these potatoes registered an even higher intensity of light.2 It was impossible that the effect had anything to do with photosynthesis, Popp realized. What's more, these photons in the living systems he'd examined were more coherent than anything he'd ever seen.
In quantum physics, quantum coherence means that subatomic particles are able to cooperate. |
Mark Lynas
See book keywords and concepts |
 Humans already appropriate between a quarter and 40 per cent of planetary net primary production (NPP: defined as the net amount of solar energy converted to plant organic matter through photosynthesis). As the authors of one scientific study remark: 'This is a remarkable level of co-option for a species that represents roughly 0.5% of the heterotroph [animal] biomass on Earth.' And remember, this is in addition to the 400 years' worth of ancient NPP we consume each year through our fossil fuel use. We are voraciously consuming not just modern nature, but ancient nature too. |
| Europe-wide monitoring systems showed a 30 per cent drop in plant growth across the continent, as photosynthesis began to shut down in response to the twin stresses of high temperatures and crippling drought.14 From the deciduous beech forests of northern Europe to the evergreen pines and oaks of the Mediterranean rim, plant growth across the whole landmass slowed and then stopped. |
Dr. Sharon Moalem
See book keywords and concepts |
 And it is the essential component in our manufacture of vitamin D through a chemical process that is similar to photosynthesis in its dependence on the sun.
When we are exposed to the right kind of sunlight, our skin converts cholesterol to vitamin D. The sunlight necessary for this process is ultraviolet B, or UVB, which typically is strongest when the sun is more or less directly overhead—for a few hours every day beginning around noon. In parts of the world that are farther from the equator, very little UVB reaches the earth during winter months. |
Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey
See book keywords and concepts |
| So they grew cucumber seeds in the dark and tested them under conditions that would guarantee that photosynthesis would have no effect. They still found light. What's more, they found coherent light.
As previously explained, it is thought that quantum processes give way to classical ones in the hot, wet environment of the body because heat and chaotic influences from the environment lead to decoherence of the quantum signals. That Popp found coherent light in the body amounted to an overturning of some of the most deeply entrenched beliefs in physics and biology. |
Ron Garner
See book keywords and concepts |
 Through photosynthesis, phytoplankton utilize chlorophyll and light to release oxygen into water and, in the process, convert huge quantities of carbon dioxide into living matter.5 They also have the ability to convert sunlight, water, and minerals into amino acids, fatty acids, carbohydrates, and vitamins.
Until recently, phytoplankton were thought to be food for water creatures only. But that changed with the research of Tom Harper, an ocean farmer from Vancouver Island in Canada, who grows phytoplankton in a controlled environment as feed for the shellfish he raises. |
Mark Lynas
See book keywords and concepts |
| The air wouldn't be breathable were it not for photosynthesis by trees and plankton. Water wouldn't be drinkable were it not for the cleansing action of forests and wetlands. Many of the medicines that extend our lifespans were first developed from natural substances produced by plants and animals, and many more undoubtedly remain to be discovered. |
Michael Pollan
See book keywords and concepts |
 Plant leaves produce these essential fatty acids (we say they're essential because our bodies can't produce them on their own) as part of photosynthesis; they occupy the cell membranes of chloroplasts, helping them collect light. Seeds contain more of another kind of essential fatty acid, omega-6, which serves as a store of energy for the developing seedling. These two types of polyunsaturated fats perform very different functions in the plant as well as the plant eater. In describing their respective roles, I'm going to simplify the chemistry somewhat. |
David Wolfe
See book keywords and concepts |
 During photosynthesis, as plants absorb Sun energy, they transform carbon dioxide (CO2) into vital oxygen (O2) for animals to breathe. Here, at the first step, Nature dictates the necessity of animal life upon the underlying matrix of Sun-imbued plant life - animal respiration depends specifically on solar energy.
The foods we eat are energy reservoirs of transformed Sun energy. Through photosynthesis, plants capture energy from the Sun and lock that power into their stems, leaves, seeds, roots and fruits. All animals are transformed plants. The body of the zebra is nothing more than grass. |
Michael Pollan
See book keywords and concepts |
| The reason plants are such a rich source of antioxidants is that they need them to cope with all the pure oxygen produced during photosynthesis.) This was a happy development for the plants, of course, because it made humans utterly dependent upon them for an essential nutrient—which is why humans have been doing so much for the vitamin C producers ever since, spreading their genes and expanding their habitat. |
Mike Adams
See book keywords and concepts |
| In other words, a sunflower plant does not have to have a degree in plant biology or photosynthesis in order to actually conduct photosynthesis. It does it automatically.
The same thing is true in human beings. You can be healthy without having to understand the miracles of how your body actually works. While the plant has roots, you have a digestive system that extracts nutrients from the foods that you put in your mouth. |
James Dowd and Diane Stafford
See book keywords and concepts |
 Magnesium is required for chlorophyll to function properly; chlorophyll is the green pigment in plants that's necessary for photosynthesis. No magnesium, no plant life. We humans need magnesium for more than three hundred enzymatic reactions, bone formation, and muscle and nerve function, in addition to the job of buffering acid waste from protein digestion.
Here are some problems you may suffer if you have insufficient magnesium:
?Your body will have more trouble converting vitamin D to the activated vitamin D that your body can actually use.
? |
David R. Montgomery
See book keywords and concepts |
 It took a few more centuries before people discovered carbon dioxide and came to understand photosynthesis.
In the meantime, agricultural "improvers" came to prominence in the seventeenth century once the landscape was fully cultivated. Most of the low hills and shallow valleys of the Netherlands are covered by quartz-rich sand ill suited for agriculture. Supporting a growing population on their naturally poor soils, the Dutch began mixing manure, leaves, and other organic waste into their dirt. |
Dr. Sharon Moalem
See book keywords and concepts |
| As we all learned in elementary school, almost the entire global ecology of our planet depends on sufficient sunlight—beginning with the production of oxygen by plants through photosynthesis, without which we wouldn't have food to eat or air to breathe. And as we all have learned more and more over the last couple of decades, too much sun can be a bad thing on a global level and an individual one, throwing our environment into chaos by causing drought or causing deadly skin cancer. |
Mark Lynas
See book keywords and concepts |
| All plant leaves have tiny holes in them, called stomata, which allow carbon dioxide to enter and oxygen to escape during photosynthesis. Experiments in CGyenriched greenhouses show that the number of stomata per leaf changes according to the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Many fossilised leaves are so well preserved that their stomata can be counted, and studies of stomatal density in the Pliocene come to a very startling conclusion: atmospheric concentrations of C02 ranged from 360 to 400 parts per million (ppm). |
Pam Montgomery
See book keywords and concepts |
| Suddenly I realize the tingling vibration I'm experiencing is that of photosynthesis, as White Pine and I are no longer separate. White Pine's breath rushes up my spine in currents of ecstatic life force as I begin to move in rhythm with these waves, riding the crest and dipping into the trough. With a full heart, mind, and body I revel in the sensual experience of White Pine. As my greenbreath shifts and I return to
103 regular breath, my tears flow as I begin to comprehend the gift of such an intimate encounter with White Pine—more than an ally, my beloved. |
Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George
See book keywords and concepts |
 On its face, this seems to make sense, since antioxidant molecules (which plants naturally produce for protection from the highly reactive oxygen atoms generated through photosynthesis) are thought to neutralize the free radicals in our bodies, which can damage DNA and lead to cell death and tissue damage. Unfortunately, antioxidants only appear to have such an effect when extracted from organic foods as part of our normal diet. Supplements have been shown to be inert, and potentially even damaging. |
Lynne Mctaggart
See book keywords and concepts |
| When we digest it, it is metabolized into carbon dioxide (C02) and water, plus the light stored from the sun and present in photosynthesis. We extract the C02 and eliminate the water, but the light, an electromagnetic wave, must get stored. When taken in by the body, the energy of these photons dissipates so that it is eventually distributed over the entire spectrum of electromagnetic frequencies, from the lowest to the highest. This energy becomes the driving force for all the molecules in our body. |
Michael Pollan
See book keywords and concepts |
| 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. |
Pam Montgomery
See book keywords and concepts |
| Hemoglobin's relationship to chlorophyll is that hemoglobin is a respiring, iron-containing protein that takes the oxygen we breathe, produced by photosynthesis, for which chlorophyll is critical, and distributes it throughout our bodies. In other words, plants are the only source of oxygen on this planet, and because oxygen requires chlorophyll for its production, it follows that we must have chlorophyll for hemoglobin to carry out its function.
All of our food comes from plants or from animals that ate plants, which then creates all of the tissue that makes up our bones, organs, and flesh. |
| Plants' byproduct of photosynthesis is oxygen, which we need to live, and our by-product of respiration is carbon dioxide, which plants need to live. Granted, plants would still have enough carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to continue to live without us, but we cannot survive without the oxygen provided by plants. We could even say that our close relations with plants are more crucial than any of our relations with animals. Some may argue that we are dependent on animals for the protein they provide. |
| The byproduct of this process called photosynthesis is oxygen, which is necessary for the maintenance of human life. Besides providing us with our very breath, plants provide us with all of our food, either directly or indirectly from an animal that ate plant material or an animal that ate an animal that ate plant material. As author Thorn Hartmann explains, "Every life-form on the surface of this planet is here because a plant was able to gather sunlight and store it, and something else was able to eat that plant and take that sunlight energy in to power its body. |
| In this one ecstatic moment, I know this pine to be the one who shares with me the green breath of life, and I know myself to be the one who shares carbon dioxide so
19 this pine, through photosynthesis, may use that carbon to make the cellulose that is part of its roots, bark, and needles. Ah, you give me breath, I give you breath, you give me needles, I give you my health, and life goes on in a cycle of symbiotic harmony.
Journal Entry, February 2006
Plants led organisms onto land from the sea some 400 to 450 million years ago, developing from a single algal lineage. |
David Steinman
See book keywords and concepts |
 An unprecedented rise in nutrient and sediment pollution, most of it from agricultural chemicals linked with global warming, flowing down the Mississippi River causes explosive growth in phytoplankton in the ocean. photosynthesis initially produces much oxygen near the surface, but when the tiny microorganisms eventually die, they fall to the bottom to be consumed by bacteria, a process that uses up most of the oxygen in the water, especially near the bottom. The hypoxia then suffocates the shrimp, fish, and other aquatic life. |
Mark Lynas
See book keywords and concepts |
| Socolow and Pacala urged people not to be 'beguiled by the possibility of revolutionary technology' like nuclear fusion, artificial photosynthesis or space-based solar electricity. Instead, they emphasised, 'humanity can solve the carbon and climate problem in the first half of this century simply by scaling up what we already know how to do'.
Socolow and Pacala's paper confirms beyond doubt that there is no 'silver bullet' which on its own will allow humanity to kick the carbon habit whilst continuing each year to use more energy. |
Lynne Mctaggart
See book keywords and concepts |
| It was impossible that the effect had anything to do with photosynthesis, Popp realized. What's more, these photons in the living systems he'd examined were more coherent than anything he'd ever seen.
In quantum physics, quantum coherence means that subatomic particles are able to cooperate. These subatomic waves or particles not only know about each other, but also are highly interlinked by bands of common electromagnetic fields, so that they can communicate together. They are like a multitude of tuning forks that all begin resonating together. |
Email this page to a friend
