I don't want to flood you with a ton of studies (I have lots more bookmarked), but here are several: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15148063 http://www.ncb

I don't want to flood you with a ton of studies (I have lots more bookmarked), but here are several: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15148063 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15148063 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23155696 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23155696 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23110922 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23110922 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22673594 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22673594 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20101008 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20101008 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19099589 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19099589 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17447017 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17447017 As for glucose, it can be created by the liver as needed using a process called gluconeogenesis - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gluconeogenesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gluconeogenesis