information flow = energy flow.

you’re onto it ben (in my opinion). here’s what i know. sugars have something like 16 calories of energy (the stuff on your nutrition facts is actually kilocalories) contained in all the bonds in a molecule and your body has to break it down to get that energy off of the sugar molecule and into systems needed to keep your body running. It breaks it down using a huge, complicated, and redundant cycle to get the energy, breaking off about 2 calories of energy per reaction. If it went and got all the energy off of that molecule all at once (which incidentally would be the easiest way to go, chemically speaking) it would start a fire.

i have applied this model to so many facets of my life (or at least used it to put a name to things), i don’t even realize it until i am made to think about it.

future topic for me: how would my thought formulation be different if i wasn’t a biochemist.

actually, i think i can answer that one right now: probably figure something else out.