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2.2 Where Does All the Energy Go?

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    • Our body extracts energy from food. Where do you think all this energy goes? What processes do you think consume the most energy?

    • it is consumed to maintain homeostasis, most likely the brain, digestive tract, and other regulatory processes

    • I guess most of the energy goes into maintaining our low entropy (organized) configuration through metabolic processes. For example, the function of the neurons depends on a sodium pump which requires energy; same can be said about muscle activity and pretty much every process in the body (the brain consumes a lot of energy as well).

    • Is is used to maintain homeostasis of the universe

    • The energy we get from food goes into the cells. Synthesis consumes energy.

    • it is used to support functionality and maintain homeostasis. Life maintenance and homeostasis require significant amounts of energy even in the absence of activity.

    • I think the energy goes to the overall functioning of the body.

    • 1)as you said, living things can utilize energy to maintain its state as a living thing in biology its called metabolism where we build and destroy complex chemical compounds to achieve balance and control over what makes it alive.

      2)building a compound usually needs more energy than destroying an other.

    • The energy all contributes to facilitation of biochemical processes, and anabolic processes consume the most energy.

    • All energy convert eventually to heat

    • Hello Ladies and Gentlemen,

      The energy of foods goes to digestion. It drains us.

      Metabolics consume energy.

      When free of food in fasting, research is often not there yet.

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    • energy goes to biochemical reactions

    • energy goes to biochemical reactions especially anabolic reactions

    • Our body extracts energy from food.

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