Sentences with phrase «than liver glycogen»

, rather than liver glycogen.

Once the liver starts getting overloaded, fructose will be metabolized into fat rather than liver glycogen, which can lead to obesity, the collection of fat around vital organs and insulin resistance.

Not exact matches

Although fruits provide many health benefits, if you want to reduce your body fat to less than 10 %, Alvino recommends eating «only enough fruit to fill your liver with glycogen.

Carbs are the body's go - to fuel for workouts lasting less than 40 minutes, so optimising intensity depends on either ready (just consumed) glucose or glycogen, which is how glucose is stored in muscles and the liver.

More glucose than what the body needs for energy or glycogen is converted to triglycerides in the liver and stored as a more permanent energy storage compound — body fat.

Some authorities, including Tim Noakes, an exercise physiologist who has run over 70 marathons, believe that liver glycogen rather than muscle glycogen is the gating factor in marathon performance.

That a diet with Peat - like sugar proportions — roughly 50 % fructose, 50 % glucose — is better than a diet with PHD - like sugar proportions — 15 % fructose, 8 % galactose, 77 % glucose — at refilling liver glycogen.

Once liver glycogen levels begin to drop and exercise continues the body becomes increasingly hypoglycemic (low blood sugar) mainly because blood glucose is depleted faster than it is replaced by gluconeogenesis.

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).

But if you're running for longer than 90 minutes, the sugar in your blood and liver glycogen become more important because your stored muscle glycogen gets depleted.

When you take in more glucose than your body needs, it stores the extra glucose in the liver and muscles in a form called glycogen.

My understanding of what Paul says about fructose in the book is that first thing in the morning may be the best time to consume fructose because the liver's store of glycogen has been depleted overnight and so the fructose can be stored by the liver rather than converted to fat and thereby become toxic.

However, when you cut ingested carbs down to less than 100g per day something quite interesting happens: the body burns through those consumed carbs first, then turns to the glycogen stores in the liver to maintain its basic system functions.

For lean body mass preservation and training recovery I typically recommend no more than 16 hours daily as liver glycogen that fuels our brain depletes and will start liberating amino acids from muscle tissue to convert to glucose in the liver.

So the best part of being more efficient at burning fat is that you maintain more glycogen (both liver and muscle) for maintaining blood sugar levels rather than trying to fuel your aerobic system.