Biochemistry

mcgarnicle · 2013-04-02 14:33:53

Hello, hoping someone here can point me in the right direction. A lot of the articles I have been reading over the past year or so (nutrition, exercise, mood, the mind/brain) seem to rely on, or at the very least allude to, biochemistry. I'd like to get some understanding of this subject as it seems a fascinating area to…

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Hello, hoping someone here can point me in the right direction.

A lot of the articles I have been reading over the past year or so (nutrition, exercise, mood, the mind/brain) seem to rely on, or at the very least allude to, biochemistry. I'd like to get some understanding of this subject as it seems a fascinating area to me and my unscientific micro brain.

I've never studied biology beyond general junior cert science (which was half my lifetime ago) so to say I am a beginner would be more than apt. I was hoping someone here could point me towards a good introductory book, maybe also some sort of biology text to lay the foundation.

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I found that you can't go wrong with the "... For Dummies" books. Used their genetics one quite a bit in my undergrad...

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