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Carbohydrate Metabolism Explained: Glucose to Energy
Welcome to carbohydrate metabolism, where glucose becomes energy for our bodies! After a meal, blood glucose rises. Insulin helps regulate it and promotes glucose uptake into muscle and fat cells. Glycolysis occurs in the cytoplasm, breaking one glucose molecule into two pyruvate molecules and producing a net gain of two ATP and two NADH. When oxygen is available, pyruvate is further oxidized. The citric acid cycle and oxidative phosphorylation produce most of the ATP from glucose.
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Welcome to carbohydrate metabolism, where glucose becomes energy for our bodies! After a meal, blood glucose rises. Insulin helps regulate it and promotes glucose uptake into muscle and fat cells. Glycolysis occurs in the cytoplasm, breaking one glucose molecule into two pyruvate molecules and producing a net gain of two ATP and two NADH. When oxygen is available, pyruvate is further oxidized. The citric acid cycle and oxidative phosphorylation produce most of the ATP from glucose.
