Molybdenum
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Molybdenum is a transition metal. It is extremely important in plant nutrition and is found in xanthine oxidase and certain other enzymes. The name molybdenum is taken from the Greek word molybdos meaning lead like.
Molybdenum was first discovered in 1778 when Carl Wilhelm Scheele, a Swedish chemist, was able to separate it from graphite and lead. A scientist by the name of Hjelm isolated an impure extract of the metal in 1782. In the late nineteenth century, a French company named Schneider and Co discovered the usefulness of molybdenum when used as an alloying agent in steel plating for armor.
Molybdenum has been found to be a part of the biological existence of all classes of organisms and is primarily found to be in two groups of proteins or enzymes which act as catalysts in the body and speed up certain chemical reactions in the body. These two groups of enzymes are the nitrogenases and the molybdopterins.
Professor Francis Harry Compton Crick , a renowned British physicist , molecular biologist and neuroscientist , made the suggestion that since molybdenum is essential for all biological forms that it is evidence of the existence of "seeds of life" and that these seeds of life may exist all through the universe, having delivered life not only to our own planet, but also may have delivered and may still be delivering seeds of life to planets all throughout the universe. Evidence of this theory would be considered evidence of what is being termed by scientists as directed panspermia.
Molybdenum toxiciety is considered to be something which would happen very rarely if at all in human beings, due to the large amount of molybdenum which would have to be ingested into the human body in order to have any adverse effect. Some medical doctors and professional health care workers feel that there is evidence that indicates that gout may result from molybdenum toxicity in humans. Scientific studies seem to indicate that there well may be a potential for molybdenum over exposure in job related situations such as in mining and in refining operations and in certain chemical industrial related positions but up to this time, no such occurrence has been reported.
Food sources considered by medical doctors and other professional health care related experts to be rich in molybdenum are legumes, some cereal products and some leafy vegetables. Recent controlled scientific studies seem to indicate that the amount of molybdenum in the human body has shown a significant decrease in recent years, which has led medical doctors and other professional health care experts to feel that molybdenum is not absorbed into the human body as well from soy products as it is from leafy vegetables.
