The metabolic process of the human organism normally starts with breakdown products
from the intestines that become available for anabolic or catabolic reactions. Anabolic
reactions build up the substances of the organism. Anabolic reactions enable the
organism to ‘get substance’ and take form. The organism becomes visible like a standing
wave in a creek.
Larger compounds contain bond energy that holds together the compounds’ structure.
This energy can be made available by catabolic reactions for those functions of the
organism, which require directly available energy. The metabolic flow of living organisms
ends with the catabolism of its substance, which frees energy for the organism’s functions
(such as anabolic biochemical processes, bio-electrical, bio-mechanical and active
transport needs).
The citric acid cycle, which takes place in mitochondria, is at the center of oxidative
breakdown and can also be the starting point for the reductive synthesis of large
compounds in the organism. Acetyl-CoA plays a major role at this center of metabolic
activity.
The metabolic cycle in plants begins with the breakdown of water. Green plants obtain
their energy from breaking down water with the help of solar energy. The oxidation of
water provides the energy required in the plant to build up its organism. Plants in turn are
an important part of the food cycle in nature. They supply animals and humans with
nutrients, as well as being the source of oxygen for breakdown processes that are required
to make foodstuff into usable energy and metabolites. Thus the energy for the functioning
of higher organisms is indirectly derived from the breakdown of water by sunlight in the
plant.
Characterization
The two opposite metabolic processes of anabolism and catabolism are actually part of
cycles that involve different biochemical reactions, cell compartments, organs, and/or
organisms, and time rhythms.
Biorhythms
Sunlight provides the energy in plants to break down water and also the diurnal rhythm of
this process: light exposure is the dominant factor in setting the inner time clock in plants,
and animals and humans as well. The human organism has an inner time clock that
dominates the metabolic cycle with a cyclically changing emphasis on either anabolism or
catabolism in a shifted diurnal rhythm (ergotrope and trophotrope phase), indicating that
the solar rhythm has been internalized.
Characterization
The wavelength frequency of the metabolic cycle is related to the span of activity of the
relevant process in the organism. Plants have longer wavelength rhythms, animals have
more endogenous rhythms than plants, and humans can be free from exogenous rhythms.
Because we have encountered a fundamental difference here between animals and
humans, specifically that humans can be relatively free from exogenous time cycles, we
will research the human organism separately from now on.
QUESTION: What is the relation between the phase of
metabolic process (anabolic or catabolic) and state of
consciousness?
Conclusion: Metabolism plays animportant role in the coherencebetween living organisms and theirenvironment. Metabolic processesfunction in interlocking cycles andare also cyclic in time. The solardiurnal rhythm plays an importantrole as an exogenous influence onmetabolic rhythms. The prototype ofthis is found in the plant. Livingorganisms have their ownendogenous time cycles, which aremore pronounced in higher animals.Humans have an additionalprototypical capability: they can berelatively free from exogenous timecycles.
from the intestines that become available for anabolic or catabolic reactions. Anabolic
reactions build up the substances of the organism. Anabolic reactions enable the
organism to ‘get substance’ and take form. The organism becomes visible like a standing
wave in a creek.
Larger compounds contain bond energy that holds together the compounds’ structure.
This energy can be made available by catabolic reactions for those functions of the
organism, which require directly available energy. The metabolic flow of living organisms
ends with the catabolism of its substance, which frees energy for the organism’s functions
(such as anabolic biochemical processes, bio-electrical, bio-mechanical and active
transport needs).
The citric acid cycle, which takes place in mitochondria, is at the center of oxidative
breakdown and can also be the starting point for the reductive synthesis of large
compounds in the organism. Acetyl-CoA plays a major role at this center of metabolic
activity.
The metabolic cycle in plants begins with the breakdown of water. Green plants obtain
their energy from breaking down water with the help of solar energy. The oxidation of
water provides the energy required in the plant to build up its organism. Plants in turn are
an important part of the food cycle in nature. They supply animals and humans with
nutrients, as well as being the source of oxygen for breakdown processes that are required
to make foodstuff into usable energy and metabolites. Thus the energy for the functioning
of higher organisms is indirectly derived from the breakdown of water by sunlight in the
plant.
Characterization
The two opposite metabolic processes of anabolism and catabolism are actually part of
cycles that involve different biochemical reactions, cell compartments, organs, and/or
organisms, and time rhythms.
Biorhythms
Sunlight provides the energy in plants to break down water and also the diurnal rhythm of
this process: light exposure is the dominant factor in setting the inner time clock in plants,
and animals and humans as well. The human organism has an inner time clock that
dominates the metabolic cycle with a cyclically changing emphasis on either anabolism or
catabolism in a shifted diurnal rhythm (ergotrope and trophotrope phase), indicating that
the solar rhythm has been internalized.
Characterization
The wavelength frequency of the metabolic cycle is related to the span of activity of the
relevant process in the organism. Plants have longer wavelength rhythms, animals have
more endogenous rhythms than plants, and humans can be free from exogenous rhythms.
Because we have encountered a fundamental difference here between animals and
humans, specifically that humans can be relatively free from exogenous time cycles, we
will research the human organism separately from now on.
QUESTION: What is the relation between the phase of
metabolic process (anabolic or catabolic) and state of
consciousness?
Conclusion: Metabolism plays animportant role in the coherencebetween living organisms and theirenvironment. Metabolic processesfunction in interlocking cycles andare also cyclic in time. The solardiurnal rhythm plays an importantrole as an exogenous influence onmetabolic rhythms. The prototype ofthis is found in the plant. Livingorganisms have their ownendogenous time cycles, which aremore pronounced in higher animals.Humans have an additionalprototypical capability: they can berelatively free from exogenous timecycles.
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