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let’s talk about insulin’s partner glucagon  now glucagon sounds like glucose because it’s  

involved in the regulation of glucose so  let’s just talk about what this hormone is  

because i don’t want to neglect this very  important hormone glucagon simply because i’m  

emphasizing this insulin in almost you know 50 of  my videos but let’s take a look at this so insulin  

has a job of pushing the blood sugar down okay  it takes the sugar out of the blood to regulate  

the blood sugar so it gets triggered by a high  carb diet and that’s what insulin does so it’s  

constantly pushing things down it’s doing other  things as well like storing fat and storing  

glucose as glycogen but it’s helping you regulate  blood sugars by lowering it to a normal level  

right then you have this hormone glucagon that’s  pushing it up so it’s countering it and both of  

these hormones work together to keep your blood  sugar at normal so glucagon is kind of like a  

counter regulatory hormone to prevent hypoglycemia  because if you have massive amount of you know  

carbohydrate and massive amounts of insulin that  could push this thing way down here to a dangerous  

level where your blood sugar there’s nothing left  and your body can’t have that so this is one of  

the hormones that will help bring it back up so  what does it do it mobilizes glycogen which is  

stored sugar okay to glucose in your liver so it’s  kind of taking all the stored sugar in your liver  

and making it available to you to be able to  bring this back up so that’s one thing it does  

number two it activates gluconeogenesis this  is the formation of new sugar so it’ll turn  

amino acids from your diet and fat into  sugar or glucose for two reasons number  

one to keep this blood sugar up to a normal  level but also if you’re not eating any sugar  

and certain parts of your your body like the  red blood cell parts of the eye parts of the  

brain parts of the kidney need glucose they  can’t use ketones they can’t use fatty acids  

so a certain part of our body needs glucose but  don’t think you need to consume glucose because  

this hormone can turn non-carbohydrate material  into glucose okay so your body will make as much  

glucose as it needs because of this hormone  there’s other hormones that will help but this is  

one that also helps we’ll also enhance lipolysis  this is fat burning it’ll help to mobilize fat  

especially after you’ve burned up all the  sugar and used up all the stored glucose  

and you say you’re not eating glucagon comes  in there and mobilizes the fat tissue and  

releases the fatty acids into the tissues to  feed them as well as into the liver to make  

ketones or your cells can use fatty acids directly  okay so now what is insulin is triggered by it’s  

triggered by carbs higher amounts of amine  protein like amino acids so if you eat a  

high protein meal okay so that can trigger insulin  frequent eating and msg can trigger insulin  

glucagon is triggered by low glucose okay low  blood sugar as in a ketogenic diet okay it can  

also be triggered by amino acids in the blood all  right now look at this amino acids protein can be  

triggered by this hormone and this hormone but  what’s the difference between the two hormones  

well if you have a high protein meal very large  amounts of protein okay you’re going to get  

more of an insulin spike if you have a moderate  amount of protein or adequate amount of protein  

then this guy is being triggered but just realize  that this will be triggered to some degree with  

any type of protein because every time you eat  anything you will trigger insulin so this is why  

protein is kind of interesting because you have  both of these hormones will be triggered the  

point is that if you keep your protein moderate  it’s going to be more of this being triggered and  

even if there’s some insulin being triggered  this hormone will kind of keep it in check  

so it doesn’t become out of control all right then  we have exercise exercise will trigger glucagon  

what type of exercise it’s the high intensity  type or something that’s exhausting or something  

that’s a very high pulse rate type exercise  that’ll trigger glucagon and also other hormones  

like growth hormone so obviously we need both of  these mechanisms in place what i would recommend  

is stick with the low carb moderate protein  routine exercise to keep this in normal avoid  

the excess carbs avoid the high protein diets  avoid the frequent eating and also the msg so  

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