It's all about a healthy lifestyle, says Ray Chung, MD, medical director of the liver transplant program at Massachusetts General Hospital. Taking care of your liver is far more about avoiding what's bad than it is about eating or drinking things that are particularly nourishing to the liver, he says.
Confidence votes 916. Glucose is an organic compound. Organic compounds by definition are compounds that contain carbon. Glucose is an organic compound. Organic compounds by definition are compounds that contain carbon.
The rest of the carbon ends up in the by-products of these reactions, such as carbon dioxide, ethanol, and other more minor compounds. Other fermentable sugars, such as maltose, are first converted to glucose before entering these metabolic pathways (fructose, however, may enter the glycolytic pathway directly).