Last Updated: July 29, 2017
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RJB came upon a copy of Louis C. Kervran's
Biological Transmutations (Swan House Publishing Co.;
1972. English version by Michel Abehsera) around 1980. I've read through it several times and made numerous notes over the years.
It is not the easiest read. The following claims of examples of Biological Transmutation were posted under the Wikipedia article by that name in June 2010, but very quickly deleted by an editor who said that "Your attempts to show that Kervran's claims are based in anything more than his claims is unnaceptable[sic] - this article is written from a neutral PoV - we cannot take Kervrans claims as fact, and must express the mainstream point of view - that he is full of it." In other words, we believe the editor was telling us that "any evidence which Kervran might present will not be considered as evidence -- discussion that these might be erroneous will not even be allowed. Why? Well, we just know that they are crap and no further scientific exploration of them need take place." We, respectfully, disagree and, therefore, present these claims here without that bias. We will let you, our readers, decide. Ongoing commentary and exploration of these claims and what they could mean will also be found here. Also, errors we discover in his inclusion of various examples will be posted here to further this inquiry. Specific examples include: * Mg in seawater is used by organisms to make Ca shells. (Kervran, pp. 38-39) * Chicken embryo bones -- containing four times the amount of Ca as found in the egg yolk and white -- are formed from the Si in the membrane under the shell after the tenth day when the membrane separates from the shell. (Kervran, pg. 46) * The Ca content of sprouts is higher than that in the earlier ungerminated seeds supplied only with double-distilled water. (Kervran, pp. 39-40) * In a heated environment or where physical activity is increased, Na is more rapidly transmuted by way of oxidation into K, which is excreted (Kervran, pg. 28), or in a dry heated environment, Na is transmuted in the plasma to Mg, which is then excreted. (Kervran, pg. 54) These endothermic reactions (causing heat to be absorbed) lead to a biological requirement for the consumption of more salt in hot and dry countries.( Kervran, pg. 28) * Decalcification can occur when either a saltless [low or no Na content] diet is in use (Kervran, pg. 45) or is low in Mg. (Kervran, pg. 139) * Lost elements are restored in the soil of fields allowed to lie fallow for a few years. Blown-in dust, animal migration [including urine and feces], and rain-dissolved minerals do not otherwise account for this replenishing. (Kervran, pg. 125) * Fe compounds but not significant Cu are found in the ashes of spanish moss growing on Cu telephone wires. (Kervran, pg. 76) * Intestinal endogenous production of N increases during an N-deficient diet, but only in the presence of carbohydrates [chemical substances that contain only C, O and H]. (Kervran, pp. 80-81) * Mg dolomites are formed from Ca limestone. (Kervran, pg. 48) * Calcite geodes are formed in impermeable slaty rocks. (Kervran, pg. 44) * Ca in limestone walls and and soils forms potassium nitrate/saltpeter deposits. (Kervran, pg. 42) * Mn modules in the ocean or just stains on rock resulted from bacterial transmutation of Fe. (Kervran, pp. 98-99) Bacterial subtraction of hydrogen in this last example or hormonal catalyst for Na to K are two suggested ways the transmutation can occur at normal temperatures (Kervran, pg. 34) as long as there is at least a certain small amount of the end or related element present. (Kervran, pp. 58, 68) Mushrooms, algae, and enzymes are also said to be catalysts for transmutations. (Kervran, pp. 85-86, 95, 111, 113) Hormones are substances originating in an organ, gland, or body part that is conveyed through the blood to another body part, chemically stimulating that part to increase or decrease functional activity or to increase or decrease secretion of another hormone. (Venes, Donald, M.D., M.S.J. (ed.) Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary, Philadelphia: F. A. Davis Company; 2001, 19th edition, pg. 961) Enzymes are organic catalysts (substances effective in small quantities that speed the rate of a chemical reaction without being permanently altered in the reaction) "produced by living cells but capable of acting outside cells or even in vitro (in a test tube or other laboratory setting). Enzymes are proteins (complex nitrogenous compounds synthesized by all living organisms out of amino acids. Approx. 80 amino acids are found in nature -- though only about 20 (which may contain other minerals such as iron or copper) are necessary for human metabolism or growth -- and each kind contains carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen; some also contain sulfur. A protein consists of from 50 to thousands of amino acids arranged in a very specific sequence) that change the rate of chemical reactions without needing an external energy source or being changed themselves; an enzyme may catalyze a reaction numerous tumes. Enzymes are reaction specific in that they act only on certain substances (called substrates). The enzyme and its substrate or substrates form a temporary configuration, called an enzyme-substrate complex, that involves both physical shape and chemical bonding. The enzyme promotes the formation of bonds between separate substrates, or induces the breaking of bonds in a single substrate to form the product or products of the reaction... Each enzyme has an optimum temperature and pH (potential of hydrogen, a measure of the hydrogen ion concentration of a solution which expresses the degrees of acidity or alkalinity of a substance) at which it functions most efficiently... Enzyme activity can be impaired by extremes of temperature or pH, the presence of heavy metals (lead [atomic #82] or mercury [atomic #80]), dehydration, or ultraviolet radiation. Some enzymes require coenzymes (nonprotein molecules such as vitamins) to function properly; still others require certain minerals (iron [atomic #26], copper [atomic #29], zinc [atomic #30])." (Taber's, pp. 342, 687-688, 1079, 1566, 1695) The more active a creature is and the warmer its environment, the more O it consumes and the larger amount of the resulting element. (Kervran, pg. 39) Kervran insists that the laws of classical physics have been deduced from experiments made on dead matter, and are not applicable to biology (Kervran, pg. 6) in whose processes reactions at the nuclear level of the atom always involve hydrogen and oxygen. (Kervran, pp. 11-12) Transmutations at low energy are said to be a phenomenon totally different from the ones actually studied in nuclear physics. (Kervran, pg. 156) The most important and abundant of these biological transmutations take place mostly with the first 20 elements (H through Ca), and to a lesser extent with the next 10 (Sc through Zn), out of a total of 92 naturally-occurring elements plotted on the periodic table. (Kervran, pg. 10) 1 hydrogen (H); 2 helium (He); 3 lithium (Li); 4 beryllium (Be); 5 boron (B); 6 carbon (C); 7 nitrogen (N); 8 oxygen (O); 9 fluorine (F); 10 neon (Ne); 11 sodium (Na); 12 magnesium (Mg); 13 aluminum (Al); 14 silicon (Si); 15 phosphorus (P); 16 sulfur (S); 17 chlorine (Cl); 18 argon (Ar); 19 potassium (K); 20 calcium (Ca); 21 scandium (Sc); 22 titanium (Ti); 23 vanadium (V); 24 chromium (Cr); 25 manganese (Mn); 26 iron (Fe); 27 cobalt (Co); 28 nickel (Ni); 29 copper (Cu); 30 zinc (Zn). None of the fissioned [split] elements would be travelling at high velocity since biological organisms lack any mechanism to do this. The environment would not have neither high pressure nor high temperature since no biological organism could survive the required pressure and temperature, not even for extremely short periods of time. This amounts to having a nuclear fusion reaction in a low energy environment, which would go against basic physic laws. (Müller, Tibor and Harmund Müller Modelling in natural sciences: design, validation, and case studies (Springer; 2003), pp. 24-29) Not all of Kervran's claims are of anomalies. Many are long-observed phenomena which have never been really explained. The hypothesis of biological transmutation accounts for the above observations and others; can all of these observations and anomalies be adequately explained otherwise? Kervran's theory accounts for the above observations and others; can these all be explained otherwise? See also Taylor, G. Jeffrey "Life underground," Planetary Science Research Discoveries, http://www.psrd.hawaii.edu/Dec96/LifeUnderground.html for examples of how the range of life is continually being expanded hortizontally and vertically. "Were there no life [on Earth], temperature and gas composition would be predictable solely from physical factors. The sun's output of energy and the rules of chemistry and physics would determine Earth's surface properties. But these properties deviate significantly from predictions based on physics and chemistry alone. The non-biological sciences do not suffice to explain the Earth's surface environment. When the multifaceted roles of gas-producing, temperature-altering living organisms are taken into account, the disparities disappear." (Margulis, Lynn Symbiotic Planet, A New Look at Evolution; NY: Basic Books; © 1998, Sciencewriters, Amherst, MA; pp. 124-125) "All animals are absolute aerobes. Their mitochrondria always demand oxygen, or they die. Oxygen in air, even in abundance, probably preceded the appearance of animals by more than 500 million years. Hard parts, such as the calcium phosphate skeletons of fish, the chitinous exoskeletons of arthropods, and the calcium carbonate shells of clams, snails, and other mollusks probably began as waste. Calcium ions, abundant in the seas, are poisonous inside cells. The concentration of calcium inside cells must be kept a thousand times lower than that in seawater, or the microtubules of mitosis are halted and growth ceases. Calcium extrusion, beginning as waster removal, evolved into an innovative style of recycling that led to systems of structural support. Teeth, armor shields, and skeletons evolved. Clever, economic, and feasible uses were modified as hardened calcium waste precipitated into phosphate-rich waters." (Margulis, p. 94) Could the ligninous deadwood of trees be explained similarly? See also: "Transmutations of Carbon," http://www.levity.com/alchemy/nelson2_3.html, "Electric Fossils," http://www.ancientdestructions.com/electric-fossils/, and "Impossible Fossilisations and Transmutations," http://oddbitsandsquarepegs.blogspot.pt/2017/07/impossible-fossilisations-and.html. And this recent anouncement about "Biological Transmutations" by Tamara Sahno and Victor Kurashov from June of 2016, http://www.rexresearch.com/sahnokurashov/sahnokurashov.html At some point we will also add links to further articles -- pro and con -- here. Your thoughts are welcome and encouraged. Please e-mail us at rjb@magiminiland.org . Thank-you. |