Whether you eat carbohydrates, proteins, or fats, your body breaks them all down into a single molecule—acetyl-CoA—before feeding them into the Krebs cycle to generate ATP. Glycolysis is useless for fats and proteins; only acetyl-CoA serves as the universal catabolic intermediary that unlocks the energy stored in any food source.
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