0 all the chemical processes in your body, especially those that cause food to be used for energy and growth:
1 the chemical and physical processes by which a living thing uses food for energy and growth
At the physiological level, both depressive symptoms and deficits in deep memory processes may be associated with decreased prefrontal metabolism.
They then outline the implications of their definition of life for the origin of life adding biomembrane formation to the metabolism/replication-first debate.
Drevets et al. (1997) have previously demonstrated increased resting metabolism in a more ventral subgenual cingulate region in manic patients.
It is possible, therefore, that reduced synaptic pruning (and therefore, elevated glucose metabolism) will be a symptom shared by several different groups with developmental disorders.
He believes that: "the field needs some application successes, tools to understand biological systems, and the consideration of features of biological creatures such as metabolism".
Once evolution got started, this fact would be reflected in the evolution of metabolism.
We have just seen that metabolism is even more fundamental than evolution, since non-reproducing organisms are conceivable and may once have lived.
The only advantage of adopting a weaker form of metabolism is that it allows virtual life and that is not sufficiently persuasive.