Our Bodies Are A Wonderland...

This week in biology, we’re learning about cellular respiration and let me tell you—it is complex. It seems crazy to me that something with so many steps and processes can be a totally involuntary action that we really didn’t even know about until this week. How can we be doing something every second of every day without knowing or knowing how it works? And it happens so fast. We breath in and by the time we breath out, almost all the cells in our body (and there are trillions and trillions of them) have completed the three-process reaction (with each process containing like ten steps) to fuel enough energy to keep us living. That’s teeny, tiny, microscopic cells doing enough to make energy for us to perform basic as well as complex functions. Seems pretty crazy. It seems to me that such an important reaction inside our bodies would automatically be programmed into our brains so that we just know it, know how it works, etc. Our bodies are quite literally a wonderland.