Nutrition is an Active Event, Introduction
Hardly anyone thinks of nutrition as an event in concrete terms. However, people unconsciously speak of metabolism as an event that has a concrete outcome such as weight gain, weight loss, or recovery from training or illness. Such ‘metabolic outcomes’ occur because nutrition is an active event.
The way to ‘see’ or visualize nutrition as an active event is to view images that freeze time and capture a moment of the micro and macro world. For example, the two physical phenomena shown below occur simultaneously; one occurs unseen at the microscopic level and the other macroscopically, as seen by the naked eye. More specifically, rapid, anaerobic movement of your whole body (sprinting as shown below) and an unseen metabolic event in your muscle cells (fermentation of glucose, commonly called glycolysis) occur simultaneously. You would never know this unless you were shown the connection.
As trainers, healers, and scientists, we do not need to literally see biochemical-nutritional events happening inside a muscle. We just need a model to visualize ‘nutrients used’ within a muscle or any cell within the body. Consider how, at a glance you understand ‘hot colors’ express hot temperatures on a weather map, even though you do not see ‘faster molecular vibration’ of air molecules. Likewise, you just need to learn how color analogizes nutritional demand with speed of moving the body.
This book uses a variety schematics and visual devices to connect events of the unseen world with their external familiarly known forms, which people experience daily. By connecting these perspectives, a trained eye learns to ‘see’ metabolic activity within a cell more than just transforming food stuffs into physical action. A trained trainer or wise healer sees transformation of energy as synonymous with restoring the integral function of specific physical body parts as we recover from training or heal and regenerate the whole body over time.
In the first lesson, color codes train you to see ‘metabolism of nutrients’ in a muscle cell, akin to learning the meaning of colors and symbols of a map legend. Let us start from the beginning.
Go to Lesson 1: Muscles, Bacteria, and Acid
Navigate These Lessons or Click to Each Next Lesson at Bottom of Page:
Lesson 1: Muscles, Bacteria, and Acid
Lesson 2: The Magus of Metabolism
Lesson 4: Muscles, Lightning, Brain Cells, and Water
Lesson 5: Fermentation and the Origins of Energy Balance Experiments
Lesson 6: Linear Perception vs. Perceiving ‘Simultaneity’
Lesson 7: Messages from Masters of Nature, Science, and Economics