ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Biosynthesis

Biosynthesis is like cooking but for our bodies. You know how mommy makes yummy food in the kitchen? Well, our body also makes its own food and other important things that we need to stay healthy and strong.

Let's say you want to make a cake. You need many ingredients like flour, sugar, vanilla, eggs, and milk. You mix them up and put them in the oven, and voila, a yummy cake is ready!

Our body is the same. It needs many different ingredients to make things like hormones and proteins that we need to grow, develop, and stay healthy. Instead of flour, sugar, and eggs, our body needs things like amino acids, sugars, and fatty acids.

But how does our body make these things? Well, it's like having a recipe card. The body has instructions, called enzymes, that tell it what to do and how to do it. Enzymes are like cooking tools that help make the process faster and more efficient.

When our body needs to make something, it first checks if it has all the ingredients. If not, it will get them from our food or break down other things in the body to get what it needs. Then, the body follows the recipe card and uses enzymes to mix and match the ingredients just right.

Finally, after everything is mixed up and ready, the body gets its own yummy cake! For example, if we need insulin, the body will make it using the ingredients and enzymes to mix it all up and eventually put insulin where it's needed in the body.

So, in simple terms, biosynthesis is like cooking but for our body. It helps our body make all the necessary things we need to survive using enzymes that follow the "recipe card" to mix and match the right ingredients.