Kreb's cycle lecture by Dr Hady

The krebs cycle, one of the most forgettable subjects in medicine. Let's try to remember the step by step products in a different way. The story starts with a man returning home from the grocery store with a bag of 6 oranges. The bag of six oranges here helps me remember six carbons for the substance Citrate following Citrate comes something very similar called Isocitrate. Now the man needs to get into his house so he grabs his key in his pocket using his hand. The hand holding the key has five fingers which reminds me of 5 carbons holding a key and the 5 fingers represents alphaketoglutarate. next he heads to the kitchen for a little break. He sets his key down as well as the groceries and takes a little smoke break. He inhales his pipe by sucking in the smoke. Sucking in reminds me of Succinyl CoA followed by the substrate Succinate. Succinyl CoA and Succinate both have 4 carbons. After inhaling, he exhales & fumes out the smoke & fuming out reminds me of fumarate. Now he'a done with his break & he has a chore to do. So he grabs his hammer & heads to the hallway. The hammer is synonymous with a mallet as in Malate, he hammers in a 4 sided frame picture indicating 4 carbons. That framed picture has a beautiful scene with an Ox in the center. The 4 legged Ox should help you remember 4 carbons for Oxaloacetate and that's essentially all the steps of the TCA cycle.