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Energy Metabolism Governs Everything
Mastering Nutrition
The Second Law of Thermodynamics
A human can decrease her entropy so long as she, one, takes in new energy and two, increases the entropy of her surroundings. This allows the universe to comply with the second law of thermodynamics. A 150-pound human will eat 2,000 pounds of food in a year. We're constantly offloading heat to make the entropy of our surroundings increase more than the order we create within our body. All life and health are most centrally defined by being high-energy, low-entropy states.
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