This second part of the series for Creative Health will focus on the fundamentals of keeping the body's biochemistry in excellent condition. There are two essential ingredients to peak metabolism, proper hydration and elimination of free radicals. When these two are enhanced the body will operate at optimum efficiency, All biochemical functions of the body are a combination of the elements hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen and carbon. The hydrogen cycle is the most important. Of these four elements, hydrogen actually makes up 90 percent of the matter in the known universe with helium making up nine percent and all other elements comprising the remaining one percent.
Water is formed when hydrogen is burned by oxygen.
We create pure water in the body every day as a product of our metabolism. This element is the source of protons necessary for ATP production. All of the food we eat is eventually broken down into ATP as the primary current of life. The Nobel laureate Albert Szent-Gyorgyi discovered that the tissues of the body store hydrogen in vast amounts. The order of hydrogen pooling by quantities found in the body are the liver, intestine, kidney, heart, lung and finally spleen.