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  • They don’t compete or do hard workouts without consuming carbohydrates though. The anaerobic metabolism doesn’t run on fat no matter how much you train, and it brings a lot of extra energy. You simply can’t go as hard as you can without carbohydrate.

    Ruminants might be able to convert more fat to glucose, I don’t know about that, but humans can’t. Would be wonderful if we could, considering we can store almost infinite fat but only a meager amount of carbohydrate.

    Wikipedia explains it well: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gluconeogenesis

    I forgot to mention odd-chain fatty acids besides glycerol, but they also just give you half of a glucose molecule.