When your body needs energy, it can draw on its glycogen stores. The molecules, made from glucose in the food you eat, are mainly stored in your liver and muscles. From these storage sites, your body can quickly mobilize glycogen when it needs fuel. What you eat, how often you eat, a...
More controversially, oxytocin can be applied as an odourless body-spray to manipulate the responses of other people: "trust in a bottle". Nature's social peptide is also critical to pair-bonding. In future, mastery of the oxytocin system may allow us to control our degree of fidelity and ...
the body will burn what it needs to meet its energy demands and store the surplus as (body) fat. The “problem” is that it’s much easier for the body to convert carbs to glucose and use that for energy instead of burning dietary fat. ...
If more glucose is present than what the muscles can store, water now has no place to reside within the muscles so it winds up outside of the cells and underneath the skin. This situation is commonly referred to as “spill-over” and is a bodybuilder’s biggest fear and the reason the...
As these muscles relax, your chest contracts forcing the air out of your lungs—in other words, you exhale. Your body isn’t inhaling and exhaling for fun, it’s fulfilling your need for oxygen. Your cells use oxygen (and glucose) to create energy through a process called cellular ...
Context: Intravenous/intramuscular glucagon stimulates hepatic glucose production and adipose lipolysis. Intranasal glucagon (ING) has recently been shown to be an effective treatment for hypoglycaemia. Intranasal administration of hormones increases its central nervous system (CNS) concentration with metabolic...
Cold air can be just as dehydrating as hot weather, and when you add indoor heating to the mix, your body’s need for water becomes even more critical. Here are three easy ways to help you stay hydrated and healthy during colder weather. Why Hydration Matters in Cold Weather Even though...
Blood sugar, or glucose, is the sugar in your blood that serves as your body’s primary source of energy. When your blood sugar levels rise too quickly, it’s called a “spike,” and when they drop rapidly, it’s a “crash.” These fluctuations can be caused by a variety of ...
If you continue to train on a very low-carb diet it’s likely that you’ll free drained and struggle to build muscle –growth simply will not happen without carbs as glucose sends essential amino acids into the muscles. Rather than cut your carbs, keep rotating what you eat and there’s...
Carbs are the body's principal energy source. On the keto diet, an individual lowers their carb consumption significantly, which causes the liver to deliver glucose for energy instead, of utilizing its stores. As a result, the liver cannot create sufficient glucose to cope with the energy requi...