– What exactly is the ‘energy’ stored in our cells. How does a chemical reaction in our body enable us to lift heavy things or run vast distances?

Question

– What exactly is the ‘energy’ stored in our cells. How does a chemical reaction in our body enable us to lift heavy things or run vast distances?

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Answer 1

This is [what they teach](https://bio.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Introductory_and_General_Biology/Book%3A_Introductory_Biology_(CK-12)/13%3A_Human_Biology/13.01%3A_Muscle_Contraction#:~:text=The%20most%20widely%20accepted%20theory,the%20actin%20filaments%20closer%20together) in college physiology and anatomy.

The idea is that beads of muscle slide over each other as reactive minerals like calcium get released.