{"id":5196,"date":"2026-07-09T16:34:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T16:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/?page_id=5196"},"modified":"2026-07-09T16:34:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T16:34:00","slug":"transcript-wicklow-prenatal-metabolism","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/transcript-wicklow-prenatal-metabolism\/","title":{"rendered":"Transcript &#8211; Wicklow &#8211; prenatal metabolism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Metabolism as a general term looks at glucose, fats, amino acids and how your body utilizes these three basic components for fuel.&nbsp; So, in order to keep our heart beating and our nervous system working and our muscles firing, we need to burn some sort of fuel.&nbsp; Preferentially we burn glucose as fuel. It\u2019s the most easily available and that\u2019s why preferentially it gets shunted towards the fetus for fetal development.&nbsp; Once we don\u2019t have glucose to use as readily available fuel, we\u2019ll start to burn lipids and then when we\u2019re done burning fats we\u2019ll start to burn proteins.&nbsp; So that\u2019s the progression of metabolism in terms of fuel utilization.&nbsp; But the most readily available will be glucose and that\u2019s what the fetus will use for growth and development in utero.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metabolism as a general term looks at glucose, fats, amino acids and how your body utilizes these three basic components for fuel.&nbsp; So, in order to keep our heart beating and our nervous system working and our muscles firing, we need to burn some sort of fuel.&nbsp; Preferentially we burn glucose as fuel. It\u2019s the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-text-only.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5196","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5197,"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5196\/revisions\/5197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}