Inflammation

The Disease process. In healthy state, our body cells are able to oxidise the glucose broken down from carbohydrates, to be used as primary fuel source (instead of breaking down fats from fat tissues or protein from our muscles). The brain, with around 2% of the body weight, consumes around 20% of the body's total energy, and depends on a steady supply of glucose to function optimally. Glucose is broken down through a process called glycolysis to create adenosine triphosphate