Insulin and glucagon work together to keep your blood sugar levels in check—find out how!
Now glucagon sounds like glucose because it’s let’s just talk about what this hormone is important hormone glucagon simply because i’m emphasizing this insulin in almost you know 50 of my videos but let’s take a look at this so insulin has a job of pushing the blood sugar down okay it takes the sugar out of the
Blood to regulate the blood sugar so it gets triggered by a high carb diet and that’s what insulin does so it’s constantly pushing things down it’s doing other things as well like storing fat and storing glucose as glycogen but it’s helping you regulate blood sugars by lowering it to a normal level right
Then you have this hormone glucagon that’s pushing it up so it’s countering it and both of these hormones work together to keep your blood sugar at normal so glucagon is kind of like a counter regulatory hormone to prevent hypoglycemia because if you have massive amount of you know carbohydrate and massive amounts of
Insulin that could push this thing way down here to a dangerous level where your blood sugar there’s nothing left and your body can’t have that so this is one of the hormones that will help bring it back up so what does it do it mobilizes glycogen which is stored sugar okay to glucose in your liver so it’s kind
Of taking all the stored sugar in your liver bring this back up so that’s one thing it does is the formation of new sugar so it’ll turn sugar or glucose for two reasons number level but also if you’re not eating any sugar red blood cell parts of the eye parts of the can’t use ketones they can’t use
Fatty acids so a certain part of our body needs glucose but don’t think you need to consume glucose because this hormone can turn non-carbohydrate material into glucose okay so your body will make as much there’s other hormones that will help but this is one that also helps we’ll also enhance lipolysis this
Is fat burning it’ll help to mobilize fat sugar and used up all the stored glucose in there and mobilizes the fat tissue and feed them as well as into the liver to make ketones or your cells can use fatty acids directly okay so now what is insulin is triggered by it’s protein like amino acids so if you eat
A high protein meal okay so that can trigger insulin frequent eating and msg can trigger insulin glucagon is triggered by low glucose okay low blood sugar as in a ketogenic diet okay it can also be triggered by amino acids in the blood all right now look at this amino acids protein can be triggered by this
Hormone and this hormone but what’s the difference between the two hormones well if you have a high protein meal very large amounts of protein okay you’re going to get more of an insulin spike if you have a moderate amount of protein or adequate amount of protein then this guy is being triggered but just realize
That this will be triggered to some degree with any type of protein because every time you eat anything you will trigger insulin so this is why protein is kind of interesting because you have both of these hormones will be triggered the point is that if you keep your protein moderate it’s going to be more of this being
Triggered and this hormone will kind of keep it in check so it doesn’t become out of control all right then we have exercise exercise will trigger glucagon what type of exercise it’s the high intensity type or something that’s exhausting or something that’ll trigger glucagon and also other hormones
Like growth hormone so obviously we need both of these mechanisms in place what i would recommend routine exercise to keep this in normal avoid the excess carbs avoid the high protein diets avoid the frequent eating and also the msg so if you’re enjoying my content which i hope you are and you’re applying this knowledge
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Insulin's Partner Glucagon By Dr. Eric Berg DC