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The Sensitive Calcium-Meters

all the chemical secrets of the bone cells down to the smallest detail and
also the process by which the calcium is stored. Then you will have to de-
vise a molecular formula to reverse this process. Moreover, you will have
to obtain in a moment all the information pertinent to the inner structure
of cells whose secrets human beings have been trying to discover for a
hundred years. At the end of your lengthy researches, you will find the
miraculous formula to persuade the bone cells to liberate some calcium—
that formula is parathormone. (See figure 1)
But there are still other things you have to do. You must find two
other formulas to ensure that the second and third functions are carried

out.
To make the second choice feasible, you must persuade the cells in the
kidneys to conserve the calcium in the urine and mix it with the blood
again. Normally, there is no necessity for these cells to search for calcium in
the urine. This time you must solve all the mysteries in the inner workings
of kidney cells, which are quite different from bone cells. Then, you must
find one molecule in an endless combination of molecules that can activate
the kidney cells to find calcium in the urine. Finally, if you manage to pro-
duce this special formula, you will have witnessed one of the greatest
wonders in the world, and the formula you obtain is exactly the same as the
first formula you discovered—parathormone. Molecules having the same

If the amount of calcium in STRUCTURE OF PARATHORMONE
the blood falls, there is
only one molecule that
puts all the remedies in
place: parathormone,
whose amino acid se-
quence can be seen on the
right. This wonderful mol-
ecule has been created
with the ability to control
the bones, kidneys and
intestines. Figure 1

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