The human body operates at a specific thermodynamic efficiency when metabolizing food
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The human body processes food and converts energy through cellular respiration and mitochondrial pathways operating at quantifiable thermodynamic efficiencies.
Evidence for · 3
Non-equilibrium Thermodynamic Analysis of Human Bioenergetics in Obesity: Implications of the Second Law.
2025 · cited by 1
Paper [1] applies non-equilibrium thermodynamics to human bioenergetics and measures specific oxidative phosphorylation efficiencies of approximately 57%.
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Thermodynamics and bioenergetics.
2002 · cited by 0
Paper [6] reviews the application of non-equilibrium thermodynamics to bioenergetics to quantify energy conservation and conversion efficiency in living cells.
Energy Equivalence of Information in the Mitochondrion and the Thermodynamic Efficiency of ATP Synthase.
2015 · cited by 0
Paper [9] analyzes the thermodynamic efficiency of ATP synthase and energy transduction in the mitochondrion.