Not exact matches
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.
In healthy human subjects, a 24 hour fast decreases liver glycogen
stores no more than 57 % and in absence of vigorous exercise does not lead to muscle glycogen consumption, suggesting that liver glycogen
stores are
sufficient after a 24 hour fast to keep blood
glucose levels within normal range (73).
Insulin also tells the liver to stop making
glucose and the muscles to
store fat (as there is
sufficient energy circulating in the blood as
glucose).