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so i’ve created a lot of videos on insulin

and blood sugars and diabetes but there’s another hormone

that works with insulin that i haven’t talked about very

often so i wanted to cover it and make it really simple it’s called glucagon

it sounds like glucose but it’s not glucose it’s a hormone

that opposes insulin so it kind of works in opposite

to insulin so let’s just take a look at what glucagon does

in relationship to ketosis ketosis is a state of fat burning

glucagon turns the switch on for ketosis insulin turns it off so insulin blocks

ketosis glucagon releases stored

sugar stored sugar is called glycogen okay and your liver in your muscles so

glucagon will release this into glucose as fuel insulin

will store glucose as glycogen and as fat whereas glucagon will release

the stored sugar glycogen into glucose and it’ll turn the fat into ketones

okay so it’s just the opposite function so insulin lowers the sugar in the blood

glucagon will raise it where does it get the sugar from right

here the stored sugar and the fat so it’s a

counter hormone to insulin so let’s say for example you have too much insulin

and it shoves your blood sugar way down and you get hypoglycemia

okay you get the shakes and you’re craving everything well normally

glucagon is supposed to kick in there and counter that it’s kind of like a

counter regulating hormone that keeps the blood

sugars where it needs to be realize that glucagon is one of the fat

burning hormones as well now if we take a look at insulin insulin

is the dominating hormone in other words in the presence of insulin glucagon will

be lowered insulin knocks you out of

ketosis glucagon puts you into ketosis

insulin is triggered by carbohydrates protein okay and eating

right here protein now you’re probably thinking wow protein’s going to knock me

out of ketosis well look at over here glucagon

also is triggered by protein so protein will trigger both hormones so

that will counter the negative effect of insulin fyi so you don’t have to worry

about protein knocking a lot of ketosis unless you consume

a lot of it vigorous exercise will trigger

glucagon adrenaline will trigger glucagon what triggers adrenaline

vigorous exercise stress will do it too this is one of the

reasons why people will lose weight during stress

but chronic stress they gain weight because the cortisol

when you experience stress acute stress you have more adrenaline

chronic stress you’re going to have more cortisol issues

now there’s a thing called GIP this is a hormone that’s triggered by

eating so look over here every time you eat

insulin is triggered every time you eat glucogon is triggered as well again we

have a situation where eating will trigger insulin

but also glucagon when eating protein you’ll stimulate both

hormones now when you’re fasting you will trigger glucagon and when

you’re eating you’ll trigger insulin what will inhibit glucagon

high sugar in the diet and insulin i hope you got that

but that’s the simplicity of what glucagon is

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