Page 31 - Consciousness in the Cell

HARUN YAHYA

THE O›L REFINERY IN OUR BODIES

The energy you require to arise from where you are and start
walking, to breathe, to open and close your eyes—in short, the
energy you need to be alive is made in powerhouses inside your
cells, called mitochondria. When we examine the processes carried
out in the mitochondria, it becomes clear why comparing them to
a powerhouse is no exaggeration.
In the production of energy in the cell, oxygen plays the main
role. Oxygen has plenty of helpers. At practically all stages of the
production of energy, different enzymes play their part. At any
particular step of this process, enzymes that have completed their
duty "change shifts" with other enzymes coming into action for the
next step. This is done in a most conscious manner, and in this
way, the energy stored in foods is converted into a form useful to
the cell, as the result of endless chemical reactions, many minor
processes, and hundreds of different enzymes going into action. In
all of this changing of enzymes, there is not the slightest confusion,
nor any mixing up of the order. All the "workers" carry out their
duty as if they were part of a well-disciplined team.
And so, it can be said that the energy powerhouse located in a

The mitochondrion,
made up of
proteins found in
the cell, works just
like an electrical
mitochondrion
power station to
generate the
energy the cell
needs.

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