“…Furthermore, stable isotope approaches make it possible to understand and measure flux through specific pathways, which provides the metabolic rate or metabolic path as opposed to the starting and final concentration of metabolites [14,15]. With this information, NMR-based metabolomics has been successfully used in toxicology [4,16,17], pathophysiology [18,19], understanding gene function [20], and for rapid diagnosis, therapeutics, and prognosis of metabolic disease using cell, animal models, and human samples [21,22] (Fig. 1a).…”