Glycogen in a sentence as a noun

Also, by 3 or 4 AM you can burn down glycogen stores.

The goal with the carbs is two fold: to replenish glycogen stores and to spike insulin.

For every gram of carbs the body stores as glycogen it stores around 4g of water along with it.

Muscle and liver glycogen will be full at some point and more and more fatty acids will be stored in adipocytes.

Thus, when you burn through all the glycogen in your liver and muscles you will lose a lot of water weight, several kilos in fact.

Human muscle also stores energy in the form of glycogen, so it's got batteries included.

Usually, glycogen stored in the liver from previous days will suffice to rocket the body's bloodstream with sugar.

The extra "carbs" don't get magically converted to fat though - they're used to replenish muscle glycogen and perform other actions.

Another effect leading to weight fluctuations upon starting / ending a diet is the body's usage of glycogen stores as an energy source.

Whereas part 1 emphasized how fructose does not turn to glycogen, I am flattered the Lustig has learned that it does in fact lead to glycogen, sometimes preferentially.

According sourced material via Wikipedia, due to the complete and utter lack of any formal agriculture, "[t]raditional Inuit diets derive approximately 50% of their calories from fat, 30-35% from protein and 15-20% of their calories from carbohydrates, largely in the form of glycogen from the raw meat they consumed.

Glycogen definitions

noun

one form in which body fuel is stored; stored primarily in the liver and broken down into glucose when needed by the body