Sentences with phrase «food into glycogen»

Insulin transforms excess energy from food into glycogen.

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Specifically, consuming high GI foods within the first 30 minutes after training will help you replenish depleted glycogen levels in the muscle by elevating your levels of insulin, which is responsible for driving crucial nutrients into your starving muscles.

When we eat food, the glucose from carbohydrates is converted into glycogen and used as the body's primary energy source.

The idea of IF is to go without food for a sufficient period of time so that you deplete your immediate energy sources, ie your blood glucose and liver glycogen stores, and your body is forced into fat - burning mode.

Insulin's job is to stuff food energy (sugar) into the liver for storage (glycogen).

This is why you need to put some thoughts into your post workout meal to replenish your glycogen stores optimally, be it with supplement or carbohydrate food sources.

Glycogen can only be used to store food energy from carbohydrates and proteins, not dietary fat, which is not processed in the liver, and does not break down into glucose.