Insatiable hunger after. Meat. Sugar. Collapse.
Sugar, then fat, then scraping the bottom. The hunger afterwards is not generic. It has a target.
Three-stage fuel mobilisation
Metabolism · Liver and muscle glycogenPlate · LCAN · Three-stage fuel mobilisation · theoretical reconstruction
Glycogen first, then fat, then muscle if the night runs long. Three stages, one bill, drawn as tanks emptying in order. The hunger after is a liver and a muscle bed that have been spent.
Stage one dumps muscle and liver glycogen. Stage two burns through mobilised free fatty acids. Stage three, the last hours, is gluconeogenesis under extreme ATP debt — the same debt that later doubles as a senolytic. The co-factor dependency gives the drive a specific object: not food in general, a metabolic requirement the shift is built around. This is why the folklore of the werewolf's hunger is not generic appetite. It has a target.
Mitochondrial density is what makes the night possible and what makes silver lethal. The engine is the vulnerability. The same organelles that power the hydraulic programme are the ones inhibition will stop.
Ch. 11.1
Werewolves in Theory