Chlorophyll, Minerals, Structural Carbs and Sugar

“…plants compound their own carbohydrates from the elements carbon, hydrogen and oxygen (taken from air and water) by means of the enzyme chlorophyll.  This accelerator of chemical reactions is itself a combination of both the inorganic and the organic.  It is composed of an inorganic atom of magnesium (soil origin) around which protein-like and vitamin-like compounds are arranged.  Yet we consider it an organic compound.  The plant builds carbohydrates first as an anatomical structure (MHC talk is “structural carbs”) (a) of roots going down into the soil to take the necessary inorganic elements from there; and (b) of its branches and leaves going up for carbon dioxide from the air and for sunshine, giving the energy required for photosynthesis.  Some carbohydrates, e.g. sugars are the starter compounds for their own conversion into proteins.  Part of the carbohydrate supply is the energy material serving to bring that conversion about.  This activity is a metabolic performance by the life processes within the plant.  Protein production is, then, a biosynthesis, a synthesis by life itself, and not one brought about so directly by the sun’s energy as in photosynthesis.

 

“…plants are thus the compounders of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen into carbohydrates and proteins…by the help of all the elements which the plants take as fertility from the soil…The plant is spending its physiological activities in using thirteen known essential inorganic elements from the soil as the means of converting four from the air and water into organic matter…those same essential inorganic elements from the soil and via the plant are then in control also of the nutrition, and thereby of the health, of the animals fed by the plants.”

 

--William A. Albrecht, Ph.D, “Soil Fertility and Animal Health”

 

Most of the emphasis is mine.

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