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Really? I'd love to read more. Could you point to source? Edit: ATP is about 0.5kg/mol. So 80kg person would be 160 moles of ATP. Hmm.

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>Other processes regenerate ATP so that the human body recycles its own body weight equivalent in ATP each day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adenosine_triphosphate

When ATP is used to power a biological process, it is converted to the diphosphate or monophosphate. Metabolic processes, such as glycolysis, then regenerate the triphosphate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adenosine_triphosphate#ATP_rec...

I wouldn't classify that as "makes", though. The basic structure (AxP) remains roughly the same, only the energy transport (phospate group) is ejected or reassembled.

It's a bit like arguing that unloading containers from a cargo ship, and reloading it with new cargo, is the same as building a new ship.

All definitions of the word "make" include phrases liking "combining parts" and "putting together"

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