What Is Metabolism and How Does It Work?

The term metabolism is so often used colloquially in everyday language that everyone talks about it. So I suppose as a two-part question maybe just to set the stage so everyone is on a kind of level playing field here number one can you maybe give what is the best way to conceptualize what actually is metabolism? And then off the back of that discussing what are some of those common misconceptions or incorrect definitions people typically go to when they think of what metabolism isYeah, we've got 37 trillion cells and they're all busy right now as you're listening to this uh doing all their different jobs. Most of those tasks you're completely unaware of like maintaining the right balance of of charge and