Sentences with phrase «macronutrient in a different fashion»

Our body stores each macronutrient in a different fashion and breaks each down into a different preferred energy form: fat is obviously stored as body fat and broken down to be used as ketones, protein is stored as muscle and is broken down to be used as amino acids (or as glucose, as we will discuss below), and carbohydrates are stored as glycogen within the liver and muscle cells which is broken down to be used as glucose.