Sentences with phrase «term as glycogen»

This gets stored in the short term as glycogen, or long term as body fat.

Not exact matches

Some of it gets stored as glycogen, but some of it also gets turned into triglycerides, which is a fancy term for fat.

This can be also achieved by consuming creatine, which performs a similar function as the glycogen in terms of hydrating the muscle cell.

The glucose is thus used for glycogen formation in liver and muscles, andit then used either as a short - term energy source, or it is transformed into fat that represents a long - term energy source.

As discussed previously though, a 24 hour short term fast is insufficient in duration to deplete liver glycogen stores in healthy subjects (73).