@Misterman
Check out "gluconeogenesis".
That will give you a metabolic pathway for protein to be broken down into sugar.
Anyway, it's a very difficult process, and a fight or flight/survival mechanism more or less.
2nd place provincials is amazing. Nice work
"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents... some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new Dark Age."
-H.P. Lovecraft