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Minerals and their role in cell energy production
Why and what if they are not sufficiently present?
Minerals are one of our basic necessities, despite the fact that they are not obviously present in our diet and we are not always aware of their necessity. Rather, we think of vitamins, fats, proteins and carbohydrates.
We must realize that we are made up of about 20 trillion (2,000 million) cells that are originally the same as that of a small plant between the street tiles. The life needs of that little plant are energy (sunlight), air water and minerals. So do all our cells: light, air, energy, water and building materials. That little plant can extract water and minerals from the soil because its roots are helped by bacteria and fungi. This also happens in our intestines, where bacteria and fungi prepare our food into usable products.
Since our body is not, like the little plant on the street, among the nutrients, it is essential that they are present in our food. If not, then the body – in order to survive – will take nutrients from other parts of the body.
Humanity has become increasingly developed, we can go where we want, choose what, when and how much we eat, but at the same time that has become our problem. Our food often does not have enough nutrients, or wrong substances that undermine the necessary ones.
The most undermining substances are sugars and carbohydrates; they destroy the vitamins that control the processes in the body. Our body is like a complex city where traffic must be directed, the vitamins are responsible for that. If we eat too many sugars (also much present in alcohol) and easily burned carbohydrates, we do not have enough vitamins and the triggering processes do not take place properly. We then become deficient, stop functioning properly at the cellular and organ level, and develop various problems.
The most important thing a cell needs to function is energy.
I mentioned it earlier, but in our cells, energy is produced by a small organelle called the mitochondrion (origin: mito = thread, chondrion = granule). This mitochondrion depends for its energy production on minerals, the same ones that that little plant uses. It is a universal mechanism.
Without energy no action, no growth, no defense, no life. 1.5 billion years ago, cells with an enveloped nucleus (eukaryotic) got their energy through a number of processes involving carbon dioxide and light, which did not require oxygen. But oxygen was indeed a product of these reactions and began to build up in the atmosphere.
Scientists think that eukaryotes at that time contained bacteria (the mitochondria) that could make energy with oxygen. Thus, over the millions of years that followed, cooperation (symbiosis) between the eukaryote and mitochondria developed, allowing energy to be produced in the cells with oxygen. This process takes place in all animal cells; in plants, chloroplasts (chloroplasts) are present in addition to mitochondria to make energy.
Animal cell anatomy
In every cell of our body there are at least 200-500 mitochondria and in some very active cells such as those of the brain and liver as many as 1,000-2500, in an egg cell 100,000.
So it is all about energy production in the cell, and if there is none or too little of it, then cells cannot function properly either. The mitochondria require fuels and oxygen to produce energy, but minerals and vitamins are needed to burn them properly.
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