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Nov 7, 2024, 03:15 PM UTC
The hidden link between glycogen balance and carb cycling
Why you need carbs for metabolic flexibility
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Why balancing your glycogen is essential | Help your glycogen stores fluctuate optimally |
| Did you know glycogen, your body’s reserve carb storage, impacts many areas of your life, like your metabolic flexibility, weight, fitness, and energy levels?
When you eat carbs and don’t use them immediately, your body stores them as glycogen to use as energy later. Certain activities like intermittent fasting and weightlifting help burn through glycogen, which pushes your mitochondria to use fat for energy.
This interplay of replenishing and depleting glycogen levels helps your mitochondria easily shift between carb and fat burn, which improves metabolic flexibility, weight loss, body recomposition efforts, energy levels, and even sleep.
That’s why carb cycling is preferred over long-term low-carb or keto diets. Constantly tanking glycogen stores and relying on fat for energy can make your body less efficient at using carbs, leading to quick weight gain when you eat carbs. It can also cause you to break down muscle for energy during weightlifting and increase your rate of perceived exertion due to low energy. | | | |
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