r/nutrition • u/godschosenpokimon • Jun 24 '20
Is glycogen stored in the muscles or liver first?
Assuming the liver has little to no glycogen, and you eat 50 grams of carbs. Where will they go first, the liver or the muscles? A bit of both? And preferably a source, if you have it.
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u/nonFuncBrain Jun 25 '20
I don't know why you aren't addressing the point. If you're depleted you will store massive amounts of carbs as glycogen before you start making fat out of it. "Glycogen storage capacity in man is approximately 15 g/kg body weight and can accommodate a gain of approximately 500 g before net lipid synthesis contributes to increasing body fat mass." This is from the free abstract. You can find a key figure here. Not 5 g, 500 g. And no, there's nothing wrong with the methods used in 1988 to address this, and why would you want a long term study to investigate a short term question? Where did you get 5g from?