You Make Your Body Weight in ATP Daily
You produce 150-200 pounds of ATP every day. You don't accumulate it—you cycle it. The numbers that prove you're not a thing, you're a process.
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Here's a number that stopped me cold when Dr. Bob first told me: your body produces approximately your own body weight in ATP every single day.
ATP—adenosine triphosphate—is the energy currency of your cells. It's what powers everything you do, from thinking to breathing to reading these words. And you make roughly 150-200 pounds of it daily.
You Don't Accumulate It
But here's the thing—you don't accumulate it. You don't have 150 pounds of ATP sitting around in your body. You make it, you use it, you make more. Constantly. Every second.
"You make, you break, you make, you break—that's flow."
This is the fundamental insight that changes everything.
You're Not a Thing
You're not a thing. You're a process. A river, not a lake. Energy flows through you, organizing matter into the pattern called "you," and that pattern persists only as long as the flow continues.
Think about what this means. Every atom in your body is constantly being replaced. The "you" from seven years ago shares almost no physical matter with the "you" reading this now. Yet you persist. Your pattern persists.
How?
Because you're not the matter. You're the organization of the matter. You're the dance, not the dancers.
The River Metaphor
A river is a useful metaphor here. The water in the Mississippi today is completely different from the water that was there yesterday. Yet we still call it the Mississippi. The river is the pattern of flow, not the water itself.
You are the same. Your body weight in ATP daily, constantly cycling through, powering the pattern that is you.
When you understand this, health takes on a different meaning. It's not about preserving a static thing. It's about maintaining optimal flow. It's about keeping the river running clean and strong.
The endocannabinoid system is the master regulator of this flow. It's what keeps the pattern stable even as everything changes.
You're not a thing that occasionally changes. You're a dynamic process that occasionally appears stable.
Flow forward.
