Question

Your roommate read that grapefruit helps reduce stress and she has eaten NOTHING BUT GRAPEFRUIT for the past week. Because she is not consuming any proteins and ingesting few other macromolecules, her body has begun to breakdown muscle proteins for metabolic fuel. Describe how the amino groups from the degraded amino acids are processed by your roommate's body through the glucose- alanine cycle. B I U Á • A: I = = = = = = = = = - XV GT 12pt Paragraph

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