And remember that glycolysis transforms glucose into Pyruvate. So at first it might seem like gluconeogenesis is simply the reverse of glycolysis. Now, that's not actually true, and gluconeogenesis is not simply the reverse of glycolysis. Why? Well, because glycolysis is a very exergonic process. So remember in our discussion of glycolysis, we said that when 1 mol of glucose is broken down inside our body under physiological conditions, that releases about 96.2 kilojoules per mole of energy.