Energy Boosters – What is energy? Where do we find it and how do we make it?
The following is an article written by Jill Thomas and was orginally published in Wellbeing Magazine – Issue 104.
Energy is a very straight forward equation really. Quite simple to make in fact. Food acts as fuel and is transformed to cellular energy through a series of chemical reactions that are dependant on key vitamins and minerals. Cellular energy, otherwise known as adenosine triphosphate (ATP) is constantly being formed and expended and we must produce 32 units of it in every cell in our body, every minute of the day. It is in the mitochondria, the engine room of each cell, that these crucial energy units are manufactured.
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