Sentences with phrase «transformed into glycogen»

The glucose that your body doesn't get to use is sent to the liver, where it is transformed into glycogen.

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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.

Your liver destroys old red blood cells, manufactures proteins and blood - clotting agents, manufactures cholesterol, stores glycogen, fats and proteins, converts fats and proteins to carbohydrates and lactic acid to glucose, transforms galactose (milk sugar) into glucose, extracts ammonia from amino acids (proteins), converts ammonia to urea, produces bile, stores fat soluble vitamins, converts adipose fat into ketone bodies, and neutralizes pharmaceuticals and alcohol (14).

Insulin transforms excess energy from food into glycogen.