Maintaining healthy sugar levels and weight is something that many people across the world are fighting to improve, especially with common poor lifestyle habits today. Restore Glycogen Control is a ...

Glucose is our body’s favorite fuel source. Your body stores extra glucose as glycogen to use when you need more energy. All parts of our body need energy to function. We get energy from carbohydrates ...

If you've ever trained for an athletic event or researched what to eat after a hard workout, you've likely heard of glycogen. It's a type of energy stored mostly in the muscles and liver that ...

For endurance athletes, the hours following intense training present a critical window. Your glycogen stores are depleted, your muscles need repair, and you're racing against time to maximize recovery ...

Rita Basu holds the Endowed Professorship in Diabetes Science in the UAB Department of Medicine Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism and is a senior scientist in the UAB Comprehensive ...

The brain has a hidden "sugar code" that could lead to better treatments for neurological diseases like Alzheimer’s, according to new research. A study recently published in the journal Nature ...

Eating carb-rich foods after exercising promotes the release of the hormone insulin, which helps shuttle sugar from your blood into your muscle cells, where it’s stored as glycogen (2). It also helps ...

Multiple insulin-regulated enzymes participate in hepatic glycogen synthesis, and the rate-controlling step responsible for insulin stimulation of glycogen synthesis is unknown. We demonstrate that ...