Number one is the penthouse phosphate pathway gives us a way to actually generate five carbon pencil sugar molecules. And we use these pento sugar molecules to basically generate generate biological molecules such as DNA molecules, RNA molecules, ATP molecules, NADH and Fad molecules. It also gives us a way to generate Co enzyme A on top of that. The second reason why the pentosphosphate pathway is important is because it gives us a way to generate reducing agent molecules, molecules we call NADPH, which stands for the reduced version of nicotine amide adenineucleotide phosphate. Now, this molecule is used in biosynthetic processes such as the building of fatty acids, the building of cholesterol molecules, the building of nucleotide molecules, and so forth. We also use the NADPH molecules in different detoxification processes that take place inside our cells.