Cell Hydration
Importance of Cell Hydration
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Macro-molecules need lots of water to function effortlessly and acquire completely new talents when fully hydrated. Organisms have an enormous repertoire of chemical reactions that enables them to transform energy and materials for growth, development, and to do all that’s required of being alive. Perhaps most remarkably, these chemical reactions are catalyzed by specific enzyme proteins that accelerate the reaction rates by a factor of 10^10 – 10^23. But the question of how enzymes work remains unanswered to this day.
One lead player that has received far too little attention until relatively recently is water. It is well known that enzymes and other macro-molecules, DNA and RNA, need a minimum amount of water in order to work at all, and much more to work efficiently. That is why cells are loaded with water, some 70 percent by weight. In terms of the number of molecules, water far out numbers all other chemical species - ions, small organic molecules and macro-molecules – added together. Water is needed for macro-molecules to become flexible, so they can dance freely to water’s quantum jazz, in order to accomplish their otherwise impossible tasks of making sluggish chemical reactions happen spontaneously and effortlessly. Many scientists are indeed coming around to the view that proteins act quantum mechanically, or, as some have proposed years ago, enzyme proteins are quantum molecular machines that transform energy coherently. |
Drinking More Water: Benefits of Staying Hydrated |
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