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| Metabolism the means by which the
body derives energy and synthesizes the other molecules it needs from
the fats, carbohydrates and proteins we eat as food, by enzymatic
reactions helped by minerals and vitamins.
Commercial Farming and natural
erosion has depleted global farmlands of most essential elements
therefore it is not wise to assume that your diet contains enough
of these elements for normal body function and maintenance.
See
Senate Document 264.
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METABOLISM is the means by which the
body derives energy and synthesizes the other molecules it needs from
the fats, carbohydrates and proteins we eat as food, by enzymatic
reactions helped by minerals and vitamins.
This global statement masks the complicated network of
enzyme- catalyzed reactions that occurs in cells. Although this page is
devoted to diseases caused by errors in metabolic processes, there is
actually a significant level of tolerance of errors in the system:
often, a mutation in one enzyme does not mean that the individual will
suffer from a disease. A number of different enzymes may compete to
modify the same molecule, and there may be more than one way to achieve
the same end result for a variety of metabolic intermediates. Disease
will only occur if a critical enzyme is disabled, or if a control
mechanism for a metabolic pathway is affected.
Here, we highlight the diseases of metabolism for which a
gene has been identified, cloned and mapped. Many of these are inborn
errors of metabolism: inherited traits that are due to a mutation in a
metabolic enzyme; others involve mutations in regulatory proteins and in
transport mechanisms.
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