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by eisrep 3083 days ago
The body can produce the amount of glucose it needs through converting proteins using Gluconeogenesis. Dietary intake of carbohydrates/glucose is not necessary.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gluconeogenesis

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I don't think you went over that medical summary I provided: Fatty acids do not serve as fuel for the brain, because they are bound to albumin in plasma and so do not traverse the blood-brain barrier. In starvation, ketone bodies generated by the liver partly replace glucose as fuel for the brain.