Anatomy & Physiology › Section V · Metabolism and nutrition › Topic V.4
Metabolic states of the body
You eat a few times a day, but your brain needs glucose every minute. The body solves this by switching between a fed state that stores fuel and a fasting state that releases it, and, if food is absent for days, a starvation state that protects the brain and spares protein.
In this topic
- Steady fuel from intermittent meals
- Worked example: converting glucose units
- The absorptive state
- What insulin does in the fed state
- The postabsorptive state
- Worked example: how long liver glycogen could last
- Starvation: protecting the brain
- Linking states to disease
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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