Metabolism | Glycolysis

all right Ninja nerds in this video we're going to talk about glycolysis so in short just a little definition of about glycolysis is they're going to oxidize a molecule called glucose so you know glucose is a sixc carbon molecule it's basically a monosaccharide which is just a fancy word for sugar so glucose

is a six carbon molecule and we're getting that from our diet we'll talk about how exactly we're getting it from our diet in the Digest system but for right now we're just going to say that we're bringing glucose into our cells which is again is a six carbon molecule and we're going to oxidize him through

various steps about 10 steps to eventually convert that into pyruvate at least two pyruvates which is two three carbon molecules but the question is how can we get this glucose this six carbon molecule into this cell how do we do that because you know glucose so again what is this molecule right here

guys this molecule right here is specific Al called glucose let's actually write it in red make it nice and Purry so again this is called glucose so glucose is our six carbon molecule we're denoting that by these circles that's 1 2 3 4 5 six thing is though glucose is actually going to be a

water soluble solute in other words it can't actually move through the cell membrane by diffusion by passively it has to come through some type of Transporter A specialized transporter these specialized Transporters are called glut Transporters so again what is this one called here it's specifically called a glut transporter but let's say that

we're having this occur in different organs you know glut Transporters so you know glut is glucose transporter they're the ones that are bringing this glucose into the cell but they're not just one direction they're bidirectional so at the same time they can bring glucose from actually what inside of the cell to outside of the cell but there's many