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alright guys so I wanted to do a quick

video on something called glycogen

because there’s some confusion with

because it sounds like glucose and

glucagon and all these other similar

terms okay so we have glycogen is

basically the storage of sugar it’s the

storage of glucose so we have glucose

molecules all strung together connected

collectively is called glycogen okay now

to store glycogen you need potassium and

this is why if someone’s on a low

potassium diet they don’t store glycogen

as well so what happens when you

actually consume carbs your body

increases insulin and then it starts

storing glycogen as a first thing that

it does and then at a certain point

anything extra it starts to route it to

fat okay so it converts carbs into fat

because we really only have a small

amount of storage of glycogen about

1,700 calories roughly about a day

supply and then we run out and then our

body is supposed to tap into fat so then

the question is what is normal blood

Sugar’s and what is too much and when do

you start to go from storing glycogen to

storing fat well normal blood Sugar’s is

about 80 so that basically means out of

all of your blood about a gallon and a

third it’s only really one teaspoon of

sugar okay it’s very very small amounts

and you can get that sugar from the

conversion of fat into sugar or protein

in the sugar so we don’t need sugar to

actually make glycogen your body can

make it also just FYI stress like

cortisol the hormone cortisol activated

by stress will also increase the storage

of glucose so in the liver it’ll just

start making more sugar out of protein

and make more glucose if you need some

okay and especially during a stress

State now out of this total amount of

glycogen the muscle pretty much holds

about 75% of the glycogen and the brain

does not have a glycogen reserve it

doesn’t store sugar it gets its fuel

from the blood so whatever

happening in the blood if there’s low

blood sugar or high sugar it’ll pull

from that but the point is that the body

doesn’t store it okay it gets it from

other places but the brain loves to run

on ketones now in a little bit of sugar

but again that sugar could be made from

other things it doesn’t have to come

from sugar but it loves ketones same

thing with the heart the heart loves

ketones as a fuel

better than glucose and it also loves

fatty acids so it can run on a few

things and it doesn’t have to run on

glucose there’s just a couple parts of

body that do need some glucose but again

your body can make it through something

called gluconeogenesis the formation of

new sugar and when we run our body on

glucose exclusively because you’re on a

high carbohydrate diet we give them the

trouble because number one we get the

conversion into fat and then we create

insulin resistance and that creates more

insulin so we have a lot of problems but

this video is mainly just to educate you

on exactly what glycogen is and how it

can be created in the body all right

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