The Energy of Life - Softcover

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Guy Brown is a Royal Society Research Fellow in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Cambridge. He is one of the world’s leading authorities on human bioenergetics.

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It's a matter of life and death: we know, instinctively if not verifiably, when something is alive and when it is dead. As death creeps over a creature, it loses its movement, its breath, its pulse, its warmth and its life. But what exactly has gone? And what difference does it make?

Everyone, everywhere always wishes they could acquire more energy, if only they knew how to define, capture and control it. In the ancient world, energy was equivalent to life itself and a gift from the gods. The Renaissance and the Enlightenment effected these spirits from the body and ushered in analysis of force, laws and mechanics. The body was seen clearly at last as an engine of energy conversion. But how, and why, does each human, each cell of each human, expend so much time and effort on acquiring and distributing energy, especially electrical energy? And what happens when that energy disappears?

With the astonishing clarity of the great scientific guides, Guy Brown takes his reader form the frenzied sub-cellular world of molecular machines and phosphate guns via the abstracted biological maps drawn by our century's greatest explorers of the human body to the questions that dog us all: who gets fat and why; who lives longest and why; does exercise really matter; why don't diets work; are we born shy or bold; how can we run faster; how can we feel less tired, less stresses, more energetic? 'The energy of life' is a handbook for living life more energetically, a stimulant in its own right.