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by PudgePacket 2162 days ago
Humans can produce all the glucose they need when in nutritional ketosis or starvation ketosis.

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

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but does that make it the "default energy System"?
From an evolutionary standpoint it would make sense to evolve the ability to produce all the secondary "fuels" from the most abundant(primary) "fuel". I don't know if things are so in reality, alas.