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Atom Economy

Meaning

In a biological context, this term represents the efficiency of metabolic processes, where the goal is to incorporate the maximum proportion of ingested nutrient atoms into the desired biological product, such as lean tissue or energy substrates. High atom economy minimizes the generation of metabolic byproducts that place a burden on detoxification systems. It is a metric for the precision and cleanliness of the body’s internal chemistry.