BIOL 1080 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Ketone Bodies, Heat Transfer, Carbohydrate

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We actually have about 10 times as many bacterial cells in our body as we do human cells! The bacteria release glucose and other sugars from fiber, and use them to grow, producing volatile fatty acids as waste products. We absorb these through the colon wall into the hepatic portal system, and use them for up to 15% of our energy needs. This is most important on a very high fiber diet, like our ancestors would have consumed in a hunting/gathering lifestyle. The colon also absorbs water and salts, while continuing to protect against bacterial infection until the non digested matter is eliminated as feces. Energy storage and release: protein storage: following a protein rich meal, there will be a burst of protein synthesis in the liver, replenishing liver proteins and some blood proteins. When fasting, tissue proteins are broken down into amino acids to make glucose.

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