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in fasted states (or when you have used your glycogen stores), glucagon or adrenaline can breakdown stored triglycerides (in adipose tissue) into glycerol and fatty acids.

The glycerol goes to the liver when it is involved in gluconeogenesis (synthesis of glucose from non-carb source).

This is essentially a reversal of glycolysis:

The glycerol molecule is converted to dihydroxyacetone phosphate, which then is converted to fructose 1,6 biphosphate and then after a number of steps, is converted to glucose.

I dont think the glycerol molecule is converted to pyruvate, but instead joins in the pathway at the step decribed above.

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