Energy Demand of the Human Baby Brain

Have you ever considered the reason why I am? We know that the substance that allows us to be ourselves is only one. The brain is the substance that is considered the reason. The brain is always considering something. The brain is thinking about what I am eating at dinner. The brain is thinking about how it will be tomorrow. My brain may itself be the reason why I am. Recent studies show that the brain which is always thinking of something is not the privilege of Homo sapiens. Other animals are always thinking of something, too. However, a large number of Homo sapiens is sharing the same concept although other animals cannot do this. The human brain is consuming a huge amount of energy to share the same concept. As the world will be short in energy if the world depends only on oil as an energy source, the brain may be short in energy if the brain uses only glucose as an energy source. If we wish to solve the energy problem of the brain, we would be able to solve many problems of daily life. Please imagine the days when you can use as much electricity as you like. Although we are working hard to shift to a sustainable society by generating and using reproducible energy, the author thinks that we have to try seriously to engage in the brain energy problems as world energy problems because this is much more closely linked with human health problems. Although the introduction has become longer, let’s look into the brain energy problem in terms of its energy substrates, glucose, and ketone bodies.