Metabolism and Medicine

Contents

Preface to Volume One.................................................................................................................................xiii

Prologue........................................................................................................................................................xvii

Acknowledgments.........................................................................................................................................xxi

Personal Statements...................................................................................................................................... xxv

1. Biological Thermodynamics: On Energy, Information, and Its Evil Twin, Entropy...................... 1

2. Biological Engines and the Molecular Machinery of Life........................................................................ 53

3. From Quantum Biology to Quantum Medicine...................................................................................... 95

4. From Systems Biology to Systems Medicine.......................................................................................181

5. Introduction to the Roadmap of Future Medicine: The Physiological Fitness Landscape........... 245

6. Science Seen Through the Lessons of Life......................................................................... 331