Sentences with phrase «glucose as glycogen»

Then, make sure to pair the drinking of water with carbs consumption — that way you're helping your body store glucose as glycogen, the favorite food of your muscles.

In a normal human body, the liver helps regulate blood sugar by stimulating the body to absorb glucose as glycogen (for future use as energy).

Taken together, our data suggest that insulin resistance in patients with type 2 diabetes contain at least two important defects: a reduced glucose transport under basal conditions and a reduced GS activity under acute insulin stimulation, implicating a reduced glucose uptake in the fasting state and a diminished insulin - mediated storage of glucose as glycogen after a meal.

Our data suggest that insulin resistance in patients with type 2 diabetes comprises at least two important defects under physiological insulin concentrations: a reduced glucose transport under basal conditions and a reduced GS activity under acute insulin stimulation, implicating a reduced glucose uptake in the fasting state and a diminished insulin - mediated storage of glucose as glycogen after a meal.

When that process is inhibited, the muscle cells burn more fat and store more glucose as glycogen in theory.

This is because high GI carbohydrates increase blood glucose quickly and stimulate more insulin - the hormone responsible for storing glucose as glycogen.

to signal the body to store the glucose as glycogen.

GSD is characterized by a lack of an enzyme that helps store glucose as glycogen or break glycogen down into glucose.

Another example would be after eating, our body responds to the level of glucose by releasing the hormone insulin which signals the body to store glucose as glycogen.

The liver actually has a whole slew of amazing functions including organizing useful nutrients, cleaning out the toxins (and sending them off to be disposed of properly), detoxifying the metabolites, maintaining the balance of fats and carbs, storing glucose as glycogen, and feeding the tissues in the body.