Let’s say that you're munching on a big slice of pizza with onions, mushrooms, bell peppers, and jalapeños while watching today's #ClinicalCuts. Pulling energy out of the glucose in that pizza, or really any food, requires glycolysis. Glycolysis is a series of enzymatic reactions in which glucose, a 6 carbon sugar molecule, is broken down into two 3 carbon pyruvate molecules. As glucose gets processed, energy is produced in the form of adenosine triphosphate, or ATP. Glycolysis happens in
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