Как это понять? Обмен веществ при голодании? Энергетический обмен при голодании??

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My experience as an intern (anno 1953) treating a youngster in diabetic ketoacidosis underscored our ignorance of the controls in human fuel metabolism. Circulating free fatty acids were then unknown, insulin could not be measured in biologic fluids, and Я-hydroxybutyric acid, which was difficult to measure, was considered by many a metabolic poison. The central role of insulin and the metabolism of free fatty acids, glycerol, glucose, lactate, and pyruvate, combined with indirect calorimetry, needed characterization in a near-steady state, namely prolonged starvation. This is the main topic of this chapter.

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It relates my progress from benchside to bedside and then to academic and research administration, and concludes with the teaching of human biology to college undergraduates.

Вот здесь автор описывает о чем идет речь в его статье: что здесь .. from benchside to bedside .. означает? .. от студенческой скамьи до постели больного .. ??