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Johnjoe McFadden PHD - QUANTUM BIOLOGY EXPLAINED

Chasing Consciousness

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Enzymes Accelerate Chemical Reaction Rates

Scientists have found that inside enzymes, protons and electrons can walk through their equivalent of walls by this quantum tunneling. This is vital to life because within our body, reactions are very extraordinarily fast compared to how they would if we didn't have enzymes. And there's nothing outside of biology which can give you these kind of accelerations. If you could accelerate your walking pace by 10 to the 20, you could walk across the entire galaxy in about a second.

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