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Not too sure about the bodily mechanics, but folic acid aids in metabolizing protein. Foods high in folic acid are avocados and sunflower seed kernels.
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∙ 14y agoProtein helps to maintain and replace the tissues in your body, and found in almost every living cell and fluid
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What cannot metabolize nutrients?
An animal cannot metabolize nutrients.
Can your body metabolize medicine?
Your body can definitely metabolize medicine. If it couldn't metabolize medicine, it would then render the medication useless as it would just pass through your body unabsorbed.
Why each of us needs a different amount of food?
Our bodies metabolize food differently.every body is different and everyone needs different nutrients to help with growth.
What happens when cells are given nutrients?
When cells are given nutrients, they metabolize them, and grow and divide to create more cells. If they are not given nutrients, they die.
Which nutrients yields the highest amount of energy per gram when metabolize?
Fats
A person who is starving is losing what?
When you starve yourself, your body does not have much to run on (food and drinks provide energy for the body). To get energy, it uses stored energy in fat cells. The body begins to metabolize these cells, and you lose fat.
What are five reasons why you need water?
Water is your body's most important nutrient, is involved in every bodily function, and makes up 70- 75% of your total body weight. Water helps you to maintain body temperature, metabolize body fat, aids in digestion, lubricates and cushions organs, transports nutrients, and flushes toxins from your body.
The blood alcohol level goes down after the body begins to?
metabolize
What else can produce their own nutrients besides plants?
a few bacteria and even then they need to metabolize an element to extract the energy traped in it
What is made up of nutrients in your body?
Your body is composed entirely of nutrients, or of substances that were made from nutrients.
How quickly can the body metabolize alcohol?
One 12 Ounce Beer An Hour
What gives your body more enrgy?
There is no simple answer here: 1) you must have calories which the simplest form are sugars. 2) You must have all of the nutrients and enzymes to metabolize the calories-B12, Niacin, Thiamine et al. 3) Conditioning -"exercise" makes your body a more efficient energy machine.
