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Biology

Energy Metabolism

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Every day, your body produces and uses an amount of ATP equal to roughly half your body weight, recycling it thousands of times to keep you alive.

Why this is interesting

You can survive weeks without food, but only minutes without oxygen—why? Because energy metabolism, the process that powers every cell in your body, depends on a constant supply of both.