Recovery after exercise

Recovery after exercise

1. Digesting carbs puts glucose into your blood. When you have too much glucose in your blood, the pancreas creates insulin.

   • Insulin makes your liver create soluble glucose into glycogen which is then stored

2. Exercise removes glucose from your blood

   • When there is too little glucose in your blood, your pancreas secretes the hormone glucagon.
     • Glucagon makes your liver converts glycogen into glucose which is then released into the blood stream

3. Your body cannot store glucose in your blood. Instead you store starch ( aka glycogen), 20% in your liver and 80% in your muscles

4. The hormones in insulin and glucagon control your blood glucose levels

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