Your Inner Engine: An Introductory Course on Human Metabolism
by Jane M. Vanderkooi

The book follows how different organs of the body cooperate in processing food that we eat and oxygen that we breathe body in order to maintain life. With an emphasis on human metabolism, the book is written for students interested in health care and for people interested in their own health. All the major metabolic pathways are presented in a way that can be understood without a chemistry background.

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Часть 1
Title, Forward, and Contents

Часть 2
Chapter 1. An inner engine keeps us alive
Chapter 2. Nuts and bolts of the machine: Atoms and molecules of life

Часть 3
Chapter 3. Machinery of a factory: The cell

Часть 4
Chapter 4. Power pathways that make ATP
Chapter 5. Storage and retrieval from glycogen: Metabolism during short term fasting
Chapter 6. Sugar is made from proteins and small molecules; Toxic N is removed

Часть 5
Chapter 7. Making and storing fat and retrieving it to supply energy
Chapter 8. Fat and cholesterol transport
Chapter 9. Repair of the engine

Часть 6
Chapter 10. Delivering oxygen
Chapter 11. Engine trouble: Diabetes and the homeostasis of glucose
Chapter 12. GB's engine