When your body has too
much glucose it stores the leftover in your liver and muscles.
As mentioned earlier, we only have so
much glucose stored in our bodies.
Not exact matches
Typical diets convert carbs -LCB- sugars -RCB- into
glucose and if these levels become too high, extra calories are
much more easily
stored as body fat which results in unwanted weight gain.
Though the body's
stored glucose reserve (glycogen) is tapped into in order to bring things back into balance, extreme blood sugar lows can be too
much for glycogen to effectively balance, and so the body is left screaming «MUST.
In this way, insulin sensitivity is defined by how
much insulin is needed to
store blood
glucose within the cells of the body — healthy people need a
much smaller amount of insulin to
store a certain amount of
glucose than insulin resistant individuals, and the latter have higher levels of both blood
glucose and insulin.
If you're getting too
much glucose, it creates high blood sugar levels, which your body
stores as fat.
While insulin removes sugar from your blood stream, cortisol and adrenalin work in tandem to counteract too
much sugar being taken out by releasing
stored glucose from your muscles and liver.
Good, whole sources of protein and carbohydrates within 15 - 30 minutes after a workout provide the necessary amino acids for protein synthesis and the
much - needed
glucose for replenishing lost
stores in the muscles.
And then, because there is so
much insulin in your bloodstream, your body
stores too
much sugar (which it converts to fat) and the
glucose levels in your blood drop too low.
You can't
store very
much of it unless you count the grams of
glucose in the snacks that are in your pockets.
By stage 2 and 3, glycogen (
stored sugar) provides
much of the
glucose needed.
So insulin just lowers your blood
glucose to
much lower than average levels, and to resolve the now hypoglycaemic state you find yourself in, your body increases its cortisol production to pull
glucose from your muscle
stores.
When we are ingesting too
much glucose by eating sugars (dairy products are also sugar), refined grains, or other carbohydrate - rich foods lacking in fibre, it leads to high blood sugar levels, which our body can't break down and
stores as fat.
But if your body is secreting too
much insulin, it leads to insulin resistance, meaning excess
glucose isn't properly metabolized and instead, is
stored as fat.
Therefore it responds by pumping out higher levels of insulin, in order to cram as
much glucose into the
stores as possible.
When there is too
much glucose around, it produces insulin, which gets your liver and muscle cells to
store glucose in the form of glycogen.