How Does Noni Work And Why It Can Be Good For So Many Conditions
April 25th, 2007
- Our bodies work by biochemical reactions. Examples include growing hair, digesting food, healing injuries, fighting infections, walking, thinking, feeling and etc.
- There are certain processes in our body that are primary and supportive of the entire body. Any change in these primary processes can cause dramatic changes throughout our whole body and other aspects of our life.
- Two of the main primary processes include the processes of synthesis and of communication.
- Synthesis include all the things that our bodies make, for example, proteins, connective tissues, new cells, hormones, DNA etc.
- Communication refers to the flow of chemically controlled information among the cells, for proper co-ordinated growth of the human body as a whole.
- Globular proteins are the workhorses for both synthesis (enzymes) and communication (cell wall receptors) processes.
- Globular proteins are long strands of amino acids connected like beads on a string. Big and wobbly, they spend only a very short time in the precise shape that does most of their intended work.
- Enzymes catalyze every biochemical reaction in the body and the cell wall receptors are responsible for much of the communication that occurs biochemically in the body.
- To increase the effectiveness of an enzyme or receptor, our bodies produce a small molecule called xeronine that wedges itself between the strands of protein, making it more rigid and hence spending more time in its biochemically efficient configuration.
- Dr. Ralph Heinicke, a research biochemist, pioneered the study of the alkaloid Xeronine.
- Xeronine is produced in the body (large intestine) from the building blocks Proxeronine, Proxeroninase and Seratonin.
- Our bodies contain all of these blocks but proxeronine may be in short supply.
- Under usual circumstances, the liver stores proxeronine, releasing it into the bloodstream every two hours.
- Additional quantity of proxeronine required comes from the food that we eat.
- However soil depletion and environmental degradation have reduced the amount of xeronine building blocks in our food.
- Also illnesses, aging, stresses, highly active lifestyles etc. have placed an increased demand on the proteins in our body.
- To increase the supply of xeronine in our body, more proxeronine will need to be supplied through our diet.
- Noni is found to contain, in abundant quantity, the building blocks for xeronine, namely proxeronine and the enzymes needed to convert proxeronine into xeronine, known as proxeronase.
- One of the first scientist to research noni was Dr. Ralph Heinicke.
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