Amino acids can be used as building blocks for tissues, oxidized to glucose, or converted to ketones, with some yielding exclusively glucose and others exclusively ketones.

“amino acids can also be used for metabolism they can be oxidized to glucose or they can become ketones there are some amino acids which are dedicated and can only become ketones these are leucine and lysine i'll show a graphic that shows this there are some that can only become glucose through a process called gluconeogenesis which i'll review in a moment as well”