NOVELTY - A composition of matter comprises a plant extract; a chemical mixture; surfactant; an anti-foam agent; and a preservative that together work synergistically to increase metabolism of microorganisms.    USE - To treat waste water to reduce its overall biochemical oxygen demand, solids content and improve its settability; to increase production of extracellular products by stimulation of beneficial microorganisms to increase their utilization substrates; to increase production of alcohol and other fermentation processes using microorganisms; to increase yield of antibiotics and other biotechnology products produced from cultivation of microorganisms where the composition is used to activate the microorganisms to a greater rate of respiration and thus conversion of substrate to usable product; to reduce hydrogen sulfide odor from a waste water system; to reduce odor from an animal waste system; to increase the methane production from anaerobic digested organic matter; to reduce organic solids from aerobic and/or anaerobic digester processes; to optimize agricultural supplements including fertilizers and crop stimulants by stimulation of soil microorganisms; to control aquatic algae growth in ponds, lakes and lagoons by stimulation of microorganisms and their consumption of available nutrients; to optimize environmental remediation of hydrocarbon spills; to increase the production of methane in anaerobic environments; to reduce the TKN in wastewater; to reduce the sludge in lagoons, digesters and sludge storage tanks and to reduce odors in animal housing units and CAFO's.    ADVANTAGE - The composition reduces the fats, oils and grease in a waste water system including its collection lines and treatment plant by increasing metabolism of microorganisms; reduces the cost of future waste water treatment facilities by minimizing the need for massive storage tanks to achieve sufficient residence time for the bacteria to achieve an acceptable effluent quality; provides enhanced aerobic and anaerobic biological activity which in turn improves effluent quality; decreases recovery time after upset in a treatment facility; provides bio-solids reduction via endogenous stimulation with resulting lower solids disposal costs; reduces scum formation resulting in less odors; increases respiration rate of bacteria, plants, yeasts, and molds in the fermentation process, both as it relates to waste water and bio-solids digestion in other areas of microbial fermentation; increases yield of antibiotics and other biotechnology products, and production of methane in an anaerobic digester to improve the yield of production for co-generation of electric power or for conversion to methanol fuel; increases biological respiration of microorganisms present in animal wastes to reduce formation of hydrogen sulfide gas and ammonia gas in waste lagoons and holding tanks; and reduces the sludge levels in waste lagoons, holding tanks and septic tanks thereby increasing their effective capacity. The composition is both environmentally and physically safe.    DETAILED DESCRIPTION - An INDEPENDENT CLAIM is included for a composition (C1) of matter having a mechanism of cellular metabolic increase to optimize efficiency in processes that depend upon living organism metabolism for their operation and/or product production.