All About Food

This blog is all about food, the essential chemicals of life and the key role they play in health and general well being. 

Food from all sources are made up of chemicals in compounded and elemental forms. When cooked and or mixed with other food items, they can transform into other chemical compounds or break into elemental components and or ionic forms (or electrolytes as nutritionist often refer to them). When exposed to the complex chemical process called human digestive systems, they undergo further transformation resulting into outputs that are used up in the human bio-elctrochemical process that is life itself. They provide energy, building blocks for all cells, proteins, DNA parts, and everything else in our body. They also become wastes that must be removed alongside other wastes from the human bio-electrochemical process. 

The human body is a complex alchemist plant, but each human being is a specific variation of that plant due to billions of potential difference makers such as DNA composition, genotype, blood type, environmental facts and so on. On this blog, I will talk about food, mostly from the perspective of a person living with a variation of the G6PD deficiency, kidney failure that requires dialysis and extensive continued research into the human bio-electrochemical process of life as my primary tool for staying alive. So come with me as I explore food and its components of life sustaining and sometime dangerous components.

Food is like fuel to the body, an essential source of most of the elements that sustain human life for energy, regeneration, growth and repair. But the process of turning food into useful elements also leaves behind waste and or excess materials that need to be efficiently removed from the body. We do this removal by urine, faeces, sweating, breathing and shedding of the skin. 

For a typical person, food is just one of several ingestible which also include medication. Here we consider everything we eat or drink other than medication to be food. But food and medications are all chemicals.

The human system consists of a set electro-biochemical plants with sub components such genes, proteins, hormones and factories such as the liver, the kidney and various glands and ducts. No two human plants are exactly the same, although there are usually a lot of similarity. The state of a person's plant determines it's optimum utilization of given ingestible. So there goes the saying about one man's food being another man's poison.

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