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When you go a long time without eating, your muscles start sending a chemical called alanine to your liver, which uses it to make sugar so your brain doesn’t run out of fuel.
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Hungry for your alanine: when liver depends on muscle proteolysis.
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2019 Nov 1When you go without food for a long time, your muscles send a chemical called alanine to your liver, which uses it to make glucose for your brain — and this study proves that alanine is the key ingredient that controls how much glucose your liver can produce.
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