All right 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 strong together, connected, collectively is called glycogen,

okay?

Now the storage 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 1700 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 sugars and what is too much and when do you

start to go from storing glycogen to storing fat?

Well normal blood sugars 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.

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