Allsgr8 -We were discussing if you can treat DKA without insulin, not if insulin is part of the treatment. Fluids, potassium,
Na bicarb., Phosphate are all treatments. Don’t embarrass yourself by admitting you don’t know Bio-chem. Of course it’s gluconeogenesis.
Alpha-ketoacids (derived from glucogenic amino-acids) is part of the citric acid cycle which converts to Oxaloacetate. Oxaloacetate is a direct precursor of PEP. PEP then goes through a series of steps to produce Glucose as the end result. In other words -protein can be converted to sugar.