00:01
Okay, so we're looking at the metabolism of fats.
00:04
I'm going to write down the information as we go.
00:07
So fats are metabolized into acetyl -coa, which enters the citric acid cycle, and we get some energy from that.
00:16
We've also seen that oxalocetate can be processed into glucose.
00:23
So if oxalacetate is in the citric acid cycle, why can we not simply take the fat, break it into glucose? acetyl -coa, make oxal acetate, make glucose, replenish our glycogen stores.
00:37
Okay, so the problem here, this is the the citric acid cycle, here it goes, we have the acetyl -coa, use a different color there, the acetyl -coa comes in here, and the oxal acetate is right here.
00:56
So actually the step that we're looking at here incorporates both molecules.
01:04
So it's oxenocetate acetate plus acetyl coa.
01:12
To the next step, which is actually citrate.
01:15
Don't need to know that...