Re: The Biochemistry of Cellular Energy: Glucose is exclusively the "fuel" for the brain.

Although the brain won't work without glucose, the brain normally uses ketone bodies as sources of energy.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?rid=bnchm.section.2244

So glucose is not the the exclusive fuel for the brain. There isn't one.

jeff
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