Journal Natural Rubber Research
Vinegar: condiment, cleaner – or the essence of life?
For most people, that bottle of vinegar sitting in the pantry shelf is a multitude of purposes. Not just a spice, food preservative, and a general household cleaner, but for many, is a medical marvel. Very often, it is assumed granted, and people only see a bottle of vinegar. However, scientists studying the origins of life on Earth, acetic acid and vinegar, it is believed that played a key role in the development of the biochemistry of early life forms first, and without it, life as we know it would not exist.
historical documentation of using vinegar to make dyes, medicinal purposes, invigorating tonics, a condiment, and as a food preservative dates back the earliest known records.
natural vinegar is produced from the secondary fermentation of alcohol in wine and is one of three to five per cent solution acetic acid in water. Acetic acid is what gives it its distinctive flavor and aroma vinegar bite. It was probably the first commercial production of acid in the world.
Acetic acid essential to our existence, not only from a biological point of view essential, but also in the production of substances chemical, light industry, textiles, pharmaceuticals, printing / dyeing, rubber, pesticides, plastics, photographic chemicals, electronics and food processing to name a few.
In nature, a family of bacteria called Acetobacter converts the alcohol into acetic acid, and are the largest producer of acetic acid to keep the machine running life on Earth.
The microscope, acid resistant creatures are everywhere in the environment. They develop in the alcoholic niches of flowers, fruits, water, soil, and in a latent stage, which are still floating in the air we breathe. Acetobacter also grow in the intestines of all living things in that are essential to the digestive process and most likely, the main suppliers of acetate to maintain our system performance.
According to the widely accepted theory on how Wächtershäuser primitive life forms evolved from the primordial soup, the first organic molecule in the chain of events was the acetic acid. He based his theory on the fact that acid formation acetic acid is a first step in the metabolism in the majority of all living things that provides the energy use of manufacturing cells of all organic ingredients an organism must exist.
There is a metabolic activity essential for life called acetylation, and among many other roles in the process is in the body, but also plays a key role in DNA repair. A study published in the journal Cell 2000 Elsevier on states of DNA repair: "The data show that cells defective for lack of DNA-break repair capacity of histone acetylase [acetylation] activity, machinery breakdown apoptotic. "
Acetate hemodialysis is a common therapy for people suffering from kidney failure. In several studies, as well as dampening effect acetate has been shown to help in dialysis by dilating the veins, which increases the effectiveness of treatment. A 1987 study said: "acetate caused vascular dilatation, which was offset by an increase in heart rate depends on the cardiac index. "
Acetic acid is fundamental to the biochemistry of virtually all forms of life. It is the basis for the acetyl acetate is a group that essentially plays in the cycle of Krebs cycle / citric acid. The Krebs cycle occurs in all plants and animals. The importance of the role lies in the efficiency with which captures energy released from nutrient molecules and stores it in a usable form.
In humans and animals, the functioning of the Krebs cycle is based on a product produced in our system called acetyl coenzyme A created during the synthesis of fatty acids.
Another acetate-based enzyme called acetyl cholinesterase / AChE is essential for the functioning of brain functions and central nervous system.
In fact, there are some acetyl-base enzymes that are essential to human health and wildlife to the chemical composition of the genes.
Interestingly, when it comes to explaining that the acetate comes from feeding the processes, explanations of scientists seem to be somewhat vague and convoluted, and often contradictory. However, apart from the metabolic production of acetate by physiological functions, large amounts of acetic acid is produced by Acetobacter in the intestine that is absorbed into the system, and which logically seems that this process provides most of the acetate required.
In a 1985 study published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, carbohydrate fermentation in the human colon and its relation to acetate concentrations in venous blood, the authors the State: "These studies show that the intestine makes an important contribution to blood acetate levels in man and the fermentation may influence metabolic processes beyond the wall of this organ. "
Several studies suggest that there may be no such thing as failure acetate, acetate and supplementation may be useful in the treatment of Canavan disease, an inherited neurodegenerative disease.
In folk medicine, the apple cider vinegar is touted as a cure for many health problems as a lot of allergies, sinus infections, acne, high cholesterol, flu, fatigue chronic candida, acid reflux, sore throats, contact dermatitis, arthritis and gout. While apple cider vinegar is the traditional choice, the only ingredient any volume that can have an effect on the recommended dose (one-two tablespoons a day) is acetic acid.
As for the effectiveness of apple cider vinegar for relieve gout and arthritis symptoms, the anecdotal (testimonial) evidence is overwhelming. And some studies lend credence to the assertion, however, all point acetic acid content.
The interesting aspect of cider vinegar is that unlike the apple for parents who, perhaps, is the result rather investigated, there is no research that cider vinegar or plain vinegar on as having any health benefits.
For a writer research, in the light of all health claims made plenty of cider vinegar, the paucity of research, especially to refute the allegations, evokes a amount of suspicion – the unmistakable aroma of a rotten rat somewhere in the woodwork. Moreover it is not unusual to see volumes of scientific studies on a product that is so rooted in folk medicine.
Both scientists and naturopaths parish overlook the possibility of deficiencies of acetate. Perhaps it is simply a matter of "not seeing the forest for the apple [] trees. However, the role of acetate in animal health has been well documented in animal husbandry, as raw farm animal is routinely supplemented with either vinegar or acetic acid.
However, realizing that the original formation of acid acetic acid is postulated to be responsible for the creation of the first life on earth, and acetate of the crucial role it plays in the biochemistry, there must be something special in vinegar.
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About the Author
George Glasser is a UK based writer. He is mainly noted, internationally, for his investigative environmental journalism on water quality issues.
In 2001, Glasser won the prestigious “Project Censored Award” for the expose’ “Is Your Bathtub a Toxic Dump?” published in Earth Island Journal. Presently, Glasser is broadening his scope to write on other health issues.
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