Central to the debate around obesity is metabolism. Scientifically speaking, your metabolism is the overall sum of all the chemical reactions that take place in your body at any given time. It enables us to grow, detoxify, respond to a stimuli, think, digest, breath etc basically every action of every cell in our body. How does this translate to burning fat? In order for a chemical reaction to occur, it needs energy. Fat cells are essentially stored energy that your body saves when it receives more energy than it needs in order to carry out all the chemical reactions that take place in your body. The two major types of chemical reactions involved in this process are catabolic and anabolic. Catabolic reactions break down molecules in order to receive energy, also known as ATP. That energy is then used in anabolic reactions to carry out the various functions that are required to sustain life, such as the replication of DNA, the creation of proteins, the storing of energy, and just about every other major process that keeps your heart pumping and allows you to do anything and everything. These two chemical reactions occur in all forms of life. To put it simply, if anabolic reactions do not occur, you die. Anabolic reactions need energy to activate, but, according to the Law of Conservation of Energy, energy cannot be created or destroyed. The energy needed for anabolic reactions comes from catabolic reactions, but catabolic reactions have to get the energy from somewhere. Where does this energy come from? Food. Catabolic reactions break down the molecules you take in when you digest food and pull the energy from the molecules in the form of adenosine triphosphate, aka ATP.
Posted on: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 10:06:40 +0000
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