Masters of Health Magazine March 2021 | Page 33

When deficient glands cannot produce the necessary hormones, the body will actually put on more fat and fluid as a defence mechanism, because fat and fluid help provide the missing hormones.

High protein content in a food may not necessarily mean sufficient or the right balance of amino acids that the body needs. Quality, organic animal protein has many advantages over vegetarian sources because vegetarian sources are typically low in one of more of the essential amino acids, even when overall protein content is high. This makes it difficult for vegetarians and more so for vegans to get enough quality protein.

The use of soy protein is high in mineral-blocking phytates and thyroid depressing phytoestrogens, which can suppress the thyroid. Potent enzyme inhibitors in soy may even depress growth*3. Also, soy is high in copper and low in zinc. This imbalance disrupts the body’s copper/zinc ratio and can cause many symptoms of copper toxicity such as skin eruptions, emotional mood swings, PMS, elevated estrogen, aversions to meat, and even cancer.

High-energy proteins are best consumed early in the day. Having fresh fruit before or with protein (e.g., smoothies) at breakfast, and a colorful, raw salad with Omega Nutrition’s omegaflo flaxseed oil and fresh lemon juice after an animal protein at lunch or dinner, promotes better digestion.

Proteins are digested into amino acids in the intestine where they are then absorbed. If too much protein is consumed the excess amino acids travel to the liver where they are broken down and converted into sugar, or into waste chemicals that are eliminated from your body in your urine. This insures that the blood does not become too acidic. Balanced meals of quality protein help to prevent the body from becoming too acidic. Care must be taken with high protein drinks that can damage the liver and kidneys. Consuming smaller, frequent meals, or two well-balanced meals (depending on various factors) is more ideal.

STRUCTURE IS FUNCTION

What happens with the large, complex molecules of protein inside the cells is essential for all life’s processes. Almost every function that the body performs, depend on proteins, their shape, and how they move and change. This includes muscle contractions, turning food into energy, immune responses, and sensing light. In molecular biology, “Structure is function” is an axiom. In other words, a protein’s shape is closely linked with how it functions.

In science, the ability to predict its structure provides a greater understanding of what protein does and how it works. Proteins are guided by the laws of physics to adopt their shape. Diet, nutrition, EMFs, including 5G, environment, and chemical contamination all influence the shape of proteins. Therefore, one has to consider if the deformed shape of blood cells causing hypoxia is being created by something other than the CV19 virus.

Predicting how chains of protein will fold into the intricate 3D structure of protein is what is known as the “protein folding problem.” Scientists have worked on this challenge for decades. 1972, Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry, Christian Anfinsen, postulated in his acceptance speech that, in theory, a protein’s amino acid sequence should fully determine its structure. This sparked decades of quest to be able to computationally predict a protein’s 3D structure based solely on its 1D amino acid sequence. For nearly 50 years, scientists have been stuck on this one problem of how proteins fold up.

However, in 2018, at a biennial global competition called CASP13 (Critical Assessment of Protein Structure Prediction, founded in 1994 by Prof. John Moult and Prof. Krzysztof Fidelis), Deep Mind’s AlphaFold version (using AI), predicted a significant degree of accuracy. They published a paper in Nature, and then, at CSAP14, improved on this.

According to their study published in Nature, 15 January 2020, (1) What proteins can do and how they function depend on their unique 3D structure. For example, antibody proteins utilised by our immune systems are ‘Y-shaped’ and form unique hooks. By latching on to viruses and bacteria, these antibody proteins are able to detect and tag disease causing microorganisms for eliminations.

A follow-up to this is when the body produces a fever to eliminate harmful viruses through sweat via the skin, or mucus via the lungs and nasal.

Many diseases are linked to mal-functioning or abnormal protein molecules. As mentioned, proteins are compromised of chains or sequences of amino acids bonded together. This includes the distance between pairs of amino acids, the angles between chemical bonds that connect amino acids, and neural networks of fragments that are involved.