LIQUID CRYSTALS

Life is exclusively made up of chiral compounds. 
All living things use chiral compounds as their building blocks.  When these building blocks are assembled into the elaborate structures called anatomy and physiology, they become ALIVE.  This state in which chiral compounds become alive is called LIQUID CRYSTALS. 

Every component of our body, from DNA to cell membranes to muscles, exists in the liquid crystal state. At death, the body experiences a transition from the liquid crystal state to the "gel" state. As we age, our organs begin to lose their liquid crystal integrity. Without liquid crystal integrity, our body's chiral building blocks are no longer interlocking pieces like gears. Like a broken watch, the body begins to lose time. Supplying the body with chirally pure compounds replenishes the gears. Supplying the body with liquid crystals keeps the gears interlocking and turning. 

The McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Chemistry (2nd Ed. 1993, page 596) defines LlQUID CRYSTALS: 
"A state of matter that mixes the properties of both the liquid and solid states.  Liquid crystals may be described as condensed fluid states with spontaneous anistropy."  Also, they have "an optical activity of a magnitude without parallel in either solids or liquids." 

Liquid crystals derived from plants can be used topically to directly nourish the liquid crystal matrix of the epidermal and dermal cell surfaces. 

Liquid crystals can NOW also be used to enhance the natural coloring of plant pigments so that adding artificial coloring to a product becomes unnecessary!  And liquid crystals, in the proper chiral setting, will help rotate a particular wavelength of light---clockwise or counter-clockwise---to add precise physiological benefit to the light absorbed by this plant pigment! 
 

Here are just a few of the independent scientific references for Liquid Crystals:

1) LIQUID CRYSTAL STRUCTURE OF MUSCLE 
Liquid-crystal-like Structures of Human Muscle Demonstrated by in Vivo Observation...
By: Kreis, Boesch 
At: Department for Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy and Methodology, Inselspital, Bern, Switzerland. 
In: Journal of Magnetic Resonance B 1994 Jun. 

2) ROLE OF LIQUID CRYSTALS IN WOUND HEALING 
Formation of Liquid Crystal Structures in the Tissue Fluid in Wound Healing...
By: Mints, Skopinov, Iakovleva, Lisienko, Drobinina. 
In: Biofizika, 1989 Nov-Dec. 

3) ROLE OF LIQUID CRYSTALS IN DNA 
Multiple Liquid Crystal Phases of DNA at High Concentrations.
By: Strzelecka, Davidson, Rill 
At: Department of Chemistry, Florida State University, Tallahassee. 
In: Nature, 1988 Feb. 

4) LIQUID CRYSTALS & DNA 
A Proof of the Formation of 2 Types of Liquid Crystal Microphases of Low Molecular Weight DNA. 
By: Evdokimov, Skuridin, Badaev. 
In: Dokl Akad Nauk SSSR,  1986 

5) LIQUID CRYSTALS & HUMAN PHOSPHOLIPIDS 
Role of Hydration in the Gel-to-Liquid Crystal Transition of Phospholipids. 
By: Kreissler, Lemaire, Bothorel 
In: Biochim Biophys Acta, 1983 Oct. 

6) LIQUID CRYSTALS & LOWERING CHOLESTEROL 
Liquid Crystal Solubilization of Cholesterol: Potential Method for Gallstone Dissolution. 
By: Bogardus 
In: Journal of Pharmaceutical Science 1983 Apr. 

7) LIQUID CRYSTALS & CELL MEMBRANE 
Oscillation of Lipid Bi-Layer Membranes Induced by the Gel-Liquid Crystal Phase Transitions. 
By: Yagisawa, Naito, Gondaira, Kambara. 
At: Department of Applied Physics and Chemistry, University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo. 
In: Biophysical Journal 1993 May. 

8) IMPROVING LIPOSOMES WITH LIQUID CRYSTALS 
Liposome Interaction with Cells. Liposomes with a Liquid-Crystal Membrane.
By: Margolis, Neifakh 
In: Usp Sovrem Biol 1982 Mar-Apr. 

9) LIQUID CRYSTALS & BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANES 
Phase Transitions in Biological Membranes and Model Liquid Crystal Systems. 
By: Seleznev 
In: Biofizika 1981 Mar-Apr. 

10) LIQUID CRYSTALS & HUMAN LIPIDS 
Evaluation of Certain Structural Models of Pre-Transition Phenomena in Liquid-Crystal Systems. 
By: Seleznev, Mineev 
In: Biofizika 1980 Sep-Oct. 

11) LIQUID CRYSTALS & CHIRALITY 
Asymmetric Synthesis in Liquid Crystals: Independence of Stereochemistry on Handedness of Liquid Crystals.
By: Martin, Martin 
In: Journal of American Chemical Society 1977 May. 

12) LIQUID CRYSTALS & BONE COLLAGEN 
Bone Stiffness Explained by the Liquid Crystal Model for the Collagen Fibril. 
By: Hukins 
In: Molecular Biology 1992 Sep-Oct. 

13) LIQUID CRYSTALS & DNA 
Enzymatic Cleavage of Superhelical DNA in a Liquid Crystal State.
By: Salianov, Palumbo, Evdokimov 
In: Molecular Biology 1992 Sep-Oct. 

14) LIQUID CRYSTALS & CELL MEMBRANE 
Chain-Length Dependence of Lipid Bilayer Properties Near the Liquid Crystal-to-Gel Phase Transition...
By: Morrow, Whitehead, Lu 
At: Department of Physics, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Canada. 
In: Biophysical Journal 1992 Jul. 

15) LIQUID CRYSTALS & PLANT CELLS 
Liquid Crystal-type Assembly of Native Cellulose Extracted from Plant Cell Walls. 
By: Reis, Vian, Chanzy, Roland 
At: Laboratoire des Biomembranes et Surfaces Cellulaires Vegetales, ENS, Paris, France. 
In: Biol Cell 1991 

16) LIQUID CRYSTALS & MUSCLE PROTEIN ACTIN 
Liquid Crystal Domains and Thixotropy of Filamentous Actin Suspensions. 
By: Kerst, Chmielewski, Livesay, Buxbaum, Heidemann 
At: Department of Physiology, Michigan State University, East Lansing. 
In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 1990 Jun. 

17) LIQUID CRYSTALS & COLLAGEN 
Molecular Organization of Type-4 Collagen: Polymer Liquid Crystal-like Aspects. 
By: Gathercole, Barnard, Atkins 
At: H.H. Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol, UK. 
In: International Journal of Biological Macromolecules 1989 Dec.

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