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Guide To Metabolism
Part 1: What is Metabolism?
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Some people think that the metabolism is a
kind of organ, or a body part, that influences
digestion.
Actually, the metabolism isn’t any particular body part.
It’s the process by which the body converts food into
energy.
Hence, you’ve likely heard of the phrase metabolic process
used synonymously with the term metabolism, because they both
mean the same thing.
The Medical Mumbo Jumbo
This isn’t a complicated medical text (which should be great
news to most of you!), and so we don’t need to spend an
unnecessary amount of time and space focusing on the layered
complexity of the human body and its extraordinary
intelligence.
Yet without drilling deeply into medical details -- which
are not relevant for our general understanding purposes -- it’s
helpful to briefly look at the biological mechanisms behind
metabolism.
Metabolism, as mentioned above, 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 - literally - is
driven by your metabolism.
If you had no metabolism - that is, if you had no metabolic
process that was converting food into energy - then 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.
Keep this in mind the next time you hear someone say that
they have a slow metabolism.
While they may struggle with unwanted weight gain due to
metabolic factors, they certainly have a functioning
metabolism.
If they didn’t, they wouldn’t even be able to speak (because
that, too, requires energy that comes from, you guessed it:
metabolism!).
It’s also interesting to note that, while we conveniently
refer to the metabolic process as if it were 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 - even, of course, when you sleep -
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, in a sense, seem to be at odds with each
other.

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