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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)?

Not exact matches

If you're partaking in a lower carb type of diet your liver will convert the stored glycogen into glucose and then release it into your bloodstream, then when out of glycogen, it will convert fat and protein for energy.

If you don't have diabetes, starch in brown rice and potato will be broken down and converted to individual molecules of glucose, which will then make their way into your bloodstream to provide energy or be stored as glycogen or fat for later use.

You can rotate complex carbs, like sweet potatoes, pumpkin, and butternut squash, into the diet every three to four days to maintain your glycogen stores if you work out and lift weights regularly.

If you frequently ask it to dig down deep into your glycogen stores, and you can store between 1K and 2K calories in the muscle and liver in the form of glycogen, you will be able to use up the last bits of glycogen, which are «harder» to get at more readily.

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.

If the body doesn't use up this stored glycogen, the liver converts it into fat to make room for new glycogen.

And technically, if you got some insulin in your bloodstream that glucose can still be converted into some muscle glycogen.

I can't help wondering if the high carbers manage to get on top of carb cravings effectively as unrefined carbs still results in large amounts of glycogen being released into the blood stream.

This means if you use up your glycogen stores during prolonged or intense exercise, you won't have more stores to tap into, unless of course, you eat more carbs.

If we already have low glycogen due to low carb dieting, then you are halfway there to tapping into your bodies fat reserves, and burning ketones for energy.

For someone like me who is NOT FAT and NOT OVERWEIGHT (pardon the emphasis on those words as I feel so left out in this obesity obsessed world) and who wants to put on weight, mass, bulk, muscle — HOW can I be successful in that attempt if I don't eat enough carbs to pump glycogen into the muscles on a regular basis?

If your blood sugar levels are low, the pancreas releases glucagon to start converting stored liver glycogen into glucose to maintain homeostasis.

Eating a low carb keto diet may keep liver glycogen low but if you're still eating 3 - 4 times a day with frequent snacks, then you're still not completely switching over into a fasted state.

Actually, one of the first things I do if I go overboard with carbs / fruit for a few consecutive days is to do a full 24 hour fast to burn of the excess glycogen and kick start getting back into fat burning mode.

If the glycogen available in the liver is exhausted, the body turns to the muscles for protein, amino acids to convert into glucose.

When we enter into a state of «fight or flight», digestion and nutrient absorption is halted (often including our ability to go to the bathroom or creating a need to «flush» waste from the body), our senses are heightened, and the liver releases glycogen as fuel for our muscles to be able to react quickly — even if we are sitting at our desks!

If I go into a caloric deficit by reducing my fat intake, won't my body just burn all of the glucose in my blood and glycogen stores to make up for the deficit before it burns any fat?

The body can not handle such a high amount of glucose in the blood, and so insulin is released to shuttle that glucose into either muscle glycogen, or convert it into fat for energy later if glycogen stores are full.

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!)

Here is the big difference: when you are in a state of metabolic ketosis, any time that you are not getting enough fuel, your body will convert fats into fuel (and will eventually use your own fats, if you run out of glycogen).

Is there anytime you would tap into blood glucose or muscle glycogen stores if you remained below or at MAF HR?

If you add a calorie deficit into the mix, things can get rugged: Those glycogen stores become depleted, your body exists in more of a stress state, and it wears you down mentally.