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Originally Posted by Gibonius 
That's under steady state though. If I'm reading the schemes correctly (which would follow what my textbook is saying), you can still get to glucose so long as you have other intermediates available, which you would in a fed state (even without carb intake). You wouldn't be able to generate glucose solely from body fat (starvation conditions), but never meant to imply that was possible.
Might be missing something, never looked at this beyond the textbook level.
That's under steady state though. If I'm reading the schemes correctly (which would follow what my textbook is saying), you can still get to glucose so long as you have other intermediates available, which you would in a fed state (even without carb intake). You wouldn't be able to generate glucose solely from body fat (starvation conditions), but never meant to imply that was possible.
Might be missing something, never looked at this beyond the textbook level.
By steady state they mean they're not adding enzymes of the glyoxylate shunt.
We're sort of on the same page though. You can get Amino Acid conversion into sugars, but that's not the same as converting fats into sugars. It would be energetically silly to go to the process of converting fats into sugars when you can already utilize fats as an energy source directly.
If you're going to the trouble of turning amino acids into glucose it means you've run out of glycogen and glucose, and would be using as much fats as you have as an energy source.
tldr amino acids can be converted into sugar, not fats.
but all semantics really./
