How To Boost Your Metabolism - Discover the Secrets to Increase Your Metabolism! AAA+++ Peter Smith Author
by Peter Smith 2021-04-03 12:14:00
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Some people think metabolism is a kind of organ, or a body part, that influences digestion. Actually, the metabolism isn’t a body part. Metabolism, is the process of transforming food (e.g. nutrients) into fuel (e.g. energy). The body uses ... Read more
Some people think metabolism is a kind of organ, or a body part, that influences digestion. Actually, the metabolism isn’t a body part. Metabolism, is the process of transforming food (e.g. nutrients) into fuel (e.g. energy). The body uses this energy to conduct a vast array of essential functions. In fact, your ability to read this page is driven by your metabolism. If you had no metabolism you wouldn’t be able to move. In fact, long before you realized that you couldn’t move a finger or lift your foot, your internal processes would have stopped, because the basic building blocks of life – circulating blood, transforming oxygen into carbon dioxide, expelling potentially lethal wastes through the kidneys and so on – all of these depend on metabolism. Although we think of our metabolism as a single function, it’s really a catch-all term for countless functions that are taking place inside the body. Every second of every minute of every day of your life numerous chemical conversions are taking place through metabolism, or metabolic functioning. In a certain light, the metabolism has been referred to as a harmonizing process that manages to achieve two critical bodily functions that seem to be at odds with each other. Less
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  • February 12, 2012
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Peter Smith is Professorial Fellow in Economics at the University of Southampton and editor of Economic Review....
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