Chapter 1: Store That Glucose & Chapter 2: Think Of Science
- Emphasizes mechanism: how digestion, absorption, and storage work
- Key questions: how glucose is broken down? how glucose is stored? how fat is broken down, absorbed, and stored
- Goals: bring blood glucose levels back to normal; store glucose as fuel in various tissues
- Cause–effect relationships come from scientific experience
Glucose Handling: Breakdown, Transport, and Storage
- Ingested nutrients are broken down to glucose
- Pathway: digestion → absorption into bloodstream → transport to tissues → storage as glycogen in liver and muscle
- Blood glucose is regulated to stay within normal range
- Breakdown of fat, absorption, and storage in the body (adipose tissue)
Blood Glucose Regulation
- Mechanisms to restore homeostasis and store glucose as fuel in tissues
The Scientific Method as a Problem-Solving Approach
- Observe phenomena
- Generate a hypothesis
- Design experiments to test the hypothesis
Analogy: Toddlers and Hypothesis Testing
- When toddlers encounter a small object, they put it in their mouth; this mirrors hypothesis testing in science