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To: neverdem

“Are you aware that your brain only gets its energy from glucose?”

Yes. but the body has the ability to generate all the glucose you need from protein.


44 posted on 12/17/2008 12:01:35 PM PST by Varda
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To: Varda
Yes. but the body has the ability to generate all the glucose you need from protein.

If gluconeogenisis is sufficient, then why is glucose stored as glycogen?

45 posted on 12/17/2008 12:42:32 PM PST by neverdem (Xin loi min oi)
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Yes. but the body has the ability to generate all the glucose you need from protein.

If the diet is poor in protein, you're SOL because you will catabolize your muscle.

48 posted on 12/17/2008 2:41:22 PM PST by neverdem (Xin loi min oi)
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