In addition, it also helps the conversion of
glucose into glycogen, thus increasing its presence in your muscle cells, which results in increased amount of water.
This chemical process converts excess
protein into glycogen, which your body then burns as its primary source of fuel.
In essence, the fat cells get the message to release stored fat to be turned
back into glycogen and burned as fuel.
When levels are too high, the pancreas signals to your liver (by using the blood's favorite gang sign, insulin) that it needs to convert the excess
fructose into glycogen.
Unlike glucose, which enters the muscle immediately and is used for energy, fructose is sent to the liver where it is converted
into glycogen first.
This insulin is very important to keep the blood sugar level in control by converting the glucose molecules in our body
into glycogen which is stored in the liver.
If you eat every eight hours every day of your life, you will never even tap
into the glycogen stores in your liver, let alone create the hormonal environment to mobilize your fat.
Tapping into our glycogen stores — yielding approximately 2,000 Kcal — wouldn't get us very far if we couldn't access the 40,000 + Kcal (in many people this is a lot more!)
Supplementing with these three supplements during the day can really help in improving carbs
storage into glycogen.
Much of this glucose is converted
into glycogen for storage leaving a little glucose as substrate for new fat production.
«As insulin is one of our primary fat storage hormones, it will firstly convert unused glucose from your
blood into glycogen and store it in your muscles, but what is left over will be converted into body fat,» Weaver explains.
Fructose gets converted
into glycogen IF the liver needs to be replenished, if the liver's supply of glycogen is full, it will convert the fructose to triglycerides (FAT).
Your liver does many other important things as well such as converting glucose, fructose and
galactose into glycogen, which it stores.
It's easy to do (because every bit of movement counts) and it doesn't
dip into your glycogen reserves (making it a pure fat burner, not a sugar burner).
The carbohydrate, not fat, is the most fattening macronutrient as it is most directly involved with shuttling
energy into your glycogen stores, and triggering fat storage when those stores get full.
NOTE: Glucose that is not taken up by cells for energy use is either converted in the
liver into glycogen and stored for later use or is stored as fat.
A healthy body converts dietary fructose
into glycogen inside your liver, a form of fuel, and then stores it ready for use.
You can think of the liver as the factory where glucose is
compacted into glycogen and said glycogen is pushed into the muscles as fuel.
Many people also don't realize that there is a natural process in the body that turns protein
into glycogen body fuel called gluconeogenesis.
Insulin is used to shuttle
glucose into your glycogen stores and store it as energy, but there's a medical problem where those stores lose their responsiveness to insulin, or become «insulin resistant».
Ultimately, fat cells get the message to release stored fat to be turned
back into glycogen and burned as fuel.»
Can you give me your advice on TOO much protein, and how that can knock you out (because it is turned
into glycogen if it can not be used / stored)?
This is basically just a VLCD (Very Low - Calorie Diet) and a research published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition back in 1992 found that your body will always
tap into your glycogen storage before spending fats.
You might also want to consider carb loading and hydrating up to two to three weeks leading up to the race, Pino suggests, to allow your body ample time to break down the
carbs into glycogen.
Therefore it signals your pancreas to increase production of insulin, ready to shuttle all that extra glucose
into your glycogen stores.
A metabolic process known as gluconeogenesis converts excess
protein into glycogen and keeps your body in a glucose burning state thus preventing ketosis.
If the body's glycogen stores are depleted, then fat is converted
into glycogen.
Too much protein can also kick you out of ketosis (you can't store protein, so if your system has more than it needs, it gets converted
into glycogen...) That's described in phinney & Volek's book as well.
Despite the myth that protein gets converted
into glycogen, your body still needs adequate protein so I'd invest in a good low carb protein powder like Isopure Zero or Syntrax nectar.
According to Memorial Sloan - Kettering Cancer Center, bitter melon increases uptake of blood glucose by your liver, fatty tissues and muscles, stimulating these tissues to convert glucose
into glycogen, its storage form.
Most carbohydrate will be converted
into glycogen that provides energy for muscles.