This is glucose right here.

You've got glucose and oxygen going in.

We're starting with a glucose right there.

You've got inputs, you've got glucose and oxygen going in.

So total for one glucose, we're going to produce four

And actually I copied and pasted from Wikipedia a glucose molecule.

The first is glycolysis, which literally means the breaking down of glucose.

And then as we go further, today we have continuous glucose sensors.

The plant makes things like starch, which we eat and then break back down into glucose, the first form the plant made.

Although fats can be turned into glucose in the liver.

At the end of the day, most of what we eat, or at least carbohydrates, end up as glucose.

But the big picture is, you start with a glucose, you end up with two pyruvates.

Some of the amino acids are convertible (with the expenditure of energy) to glucose and can be used for energy production just as ordinary glucose.

So the big take away here, if I were to write the reaction that we get for glycolysis, is that you start off with a glucose.

And in case you care about things like word origins, glucose comes from, the gluc part of glucose comes from Greek for sweet.

And indeed, at the top, you'll see before the surgery, the areas in blue are the areas that use less glucose than normal, predominantly the parietal and temporal lobes.

The cells will use glucose for energy as normal, and any glucose not used for energy will enter the polyol pathway and be converted into sorbitol.

Any excess glucose stimulated the pancreas to release insulin, which transported glucose into peripheral fat tissue, and which also caused the liver to store glucose as glycogen (liver starch).

While the oxygen concentration is low, the product of glycolysis, (pyruvate), is turned into ethanol and carbon dioxide, and the energy production efficiency is low (2 moles of ATP per mole of glucose).

And of course, the desired range trying to keep glucose between 75 and less than 200, checking it every five minutes in a continuous glucose sensor you'll see how that can impact diabetes.

And of course, the desired range trying to keep glucose between 75 and less than 200, checking it every five minutes in a continuous glucose sensor you'll see how that can impact diabetes.