 Hey everybody, Lance Coyke here and today I want to discuss liver glycogen so the liver is very complex and I think that people avoid it because it's so complex and it doesn't seem so flashy like it doesn't get Real huge when you exercise or anything like your muscles do so it's easy to forget about and I say on this probably because it's true for me and maybe not anyone else But I have recently come to discover that the liver is very very important and very complicated What I want to talk about now is is just liver glycogen and not even all of it The basic principle here is there's two spots where you're storing most of your glycogen It's in the muscle all throughout your body and it's in the liver And so the reason that it's in the liver is because it's it's highly Integrated with the cardiovascular system so it can secrete it can you know glycogen is a stored form of glucose There's a bunch of different glucose molecules It just cleaves one off and puts it into the bloodstream and from there it can go anywhere wherever I am you know depleted of Glucose it can start to go in that cell and if it's during a workout It's gonna be during or it's gonna be your muscle So I might get a lot of my Intro workout energy from my muscle glycogen But I also get a lot of it from my liver glycogen as well So we have to remember not to forget about that now after I've had a really large workout or a really long workout Maybe I've depleted those stores or mostly depleted those stores Maybe not completely but mostly depleted them then I Need to not just look into Replenishing the glycogen in the muscle but also in the liver now that the fix is the same thing You have to eat some carbohydrates and generally, you know You have a little bit more time your cells start to put especially your muscle cells put these glucose transporters glut for transporters Into the muscle cells and as the blood passes by it It sees that the glucose transporter glucose can hop on it and it can push it into the muscle and that's where we store it similar idea with the liver like every every cell that needs glucose needs to transport it needs help Transporting it because it's so big and Yeah, that's that's that so Liver glycogen is second the biggest storage form of it. Don't forget about it. Make sure that you're replenishing it after a workout If it's an easy workout, you probably don't need to worry about it too much You'll probably replenish it over the you know next coming hours before your next workout If you've had a really hard workout then definitely prioritize maybe you have a few more carbohydrates to help replenish that liver glycogen so that you have the energy to do a really hard workout Next time you're in the gym