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What Happens If You Take Too Much Creatine, A Notorious Deficiency On High-Protein Diets, How To Become A Nutrition Ninja & More With Chris Masterjohn.

Ben Greenfield Life

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The Second Law of Thermodynamics

The second law of thermodynamics says the entropy or disorder of the universe is always increasing. If we don't invest our own energy in an ordered and organized way to keep things in a certain place, then everything has a tendency to disperse. So every time that we create order in ourselves or we maintain that order or we repair it, we have to release a larger amount of heat into our environment. And when you look at that, that explains why we take so much food, we eat our body weight in food once a month or more; most of what we're doing with that energy is releasing it as heat.

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