Electrocuting Microbes
The next time some ignorant person tells you you're crazy for trying to
electrocute the microbes in your blood, just refer them to
this quote from a science magazine which revels that your bloods white
immune cells normally use an
enzymatically triggered means of electrocution to kill bacteria and
fungi (yeast
such as Candida):
Science & Vie Magazine, Issue #972, September 1998, pg. 44
(translated to English)
"The white cells (leucocytes) kill bacteria and pathogenic fungi by
electrocuting them. Discovered by the team of Jacques Schrenzel and
Karl Heinz Krause (university hospital of Geneva), this means of
defense is triggered as soon as the receptors of the white cell detect
the presence of a microbe. This signal activates an enzymatic system
located in the membrane of the
leukocyte composed of a 'sleeping enzyme' (NADPH oxydase) and co-enzyme
(NADPH). The reaction begins by the enzyme 'waking up', receiving
enzymes from it's co-enzyme, and transporting them through the
membrane. Ejected out of the white cell, this electronic flux is
focused towards the bacterium via oxygen molecules; and the bacterium
dies. This discovery might open new lines of research on immunity
deficiencies in patients who are deprived of this enzymatic system."
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