Eli5 How do the body transform carbohydrates into energy, protein into tissues, and where in the body is carbohydrates/proteins stored?

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Eli5 How do the body transform carbohydrates into energy, protein into tissues, and where in the body is carbohydrates/proteins stored?

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Your body has a lot of metabolic pathways to do all these things, but they’re all ridiculously complex and convoluted and not really something that can be explained to a 5yr old.

Like THIS complex:

http://pathways2.embl.de/iPath1/data/default_map.png