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When a person's glucose and glycogen stores are depleted, whichcan occur due to fasting or due to a diet consisting largely of fat(like eskimo diets), the body produces its energy by breaking downtriglycerides into fatty acids. Fatty acids can be then convertedto Acetyl-CoA, which can consequently enter the citric acid cycle,generating ATP.
Now normally when a cell does not receive sufficient oxygen toundergo its natural processes, it usually breaks down glucoseanaerobically to generate ATP and lactic acid. However, in the casewhere the body is running off fatty acids (e.g. fast, orfat/protein only diet), how does the body respond to such anaerobicsituations?
When a person's glucose and glycogen stores are depleted, whichcan occur due to fasting or due to a diet consisting largely of fat(like eskimo diets), the body produces its energy by breaking downtriglycerides into fatty acids. Fatty acids can be then convertedto Acetyl-CoA, which can consequently enter the citric acid cycle,generating ATP.
Now normally when a cell does not receive sufficient oxygen toundergo its natural processes, it usually breaks down glucoseanaerobically to generate ATP and lactic acid. However, in the casewhere the body is running off fatty acids (e.g. fast, orfat/protein only diet), how does the body respond to such anaerobicsituations?
Nelly StrackeLv2
30 May 2019
