Now what about the ribose phyphosphate molecule? Well, the cells of our body use the ribose phyphosphate to help generate nucleotide based biological molecules. So anytime the molecule contains a nucleotide, that means it requires ribose phyphosphate. So things like nucleic acids, so DNA and RNA, ATP molecules, NADH molecules, fad molecules, as well as coenzyme A molecules, all these different things require ribose phyphosphate. Now as it turns out, the majority of the cells of our body most of the time actually require the NADPH much more than they need the ribose phyphosphate molecule. And so what our cells actually do is they take the ribose phyphosphate that is produced via the oxidative phase and they transform that into glycolytic intermediates.