Glucose utilization does not vary as strongly as glucose intake.
Glucose utilization does not vary as strongly as glucose intake; at low intakes a deficit is made up by gluconeogenesis (manufacture of glucose from protein) and at high intakes an excess of glucose is destroyed by thermogenesis or conversion of glucose to fat.
Not exact matches
If you don't have
glucose, either because you're not eating it or your metabolism isn't optimized for its
utilization, your performance will suffer.
One of the ways it
does this is by improving
glucose uptake and
utilization by cells so they can properly convert it into energy.
Insulin
does several things in our bodies: it increases the uptake and
utilization of
glucose, turns
glucose into fat and glycogen, and prevents metabolism of that fat and glycogen.