When you run, your body burns a mixture of carbohydrate and fat. Your body stores carbohydrate as glycogen in your muscles and liver (the fitter you are the more you store), which is broken down to ...

Giant salamanders, Amphiuma means, measuring 240 to 280 millimeters from snout to vent, tolerate induced anoxia for 6 hours. After 3 hours of anoxia, hepatic glycogen units are reduced in size and ...

Glycogen has been linked to diverse processes, the most recent of which is its role in disease progression and ageing. Studies in Caenorhabditis elegans have revealed that high sugar diets which ...

UCT/MRC Research Unit for Exercise Science and Sports Medicine, Department of Human Biology, University of Cape Town, South Africa This study aimed to examine performance and ratings of physical ...

Key questions regarding the activity of glycogen in neurons are answered in two recently published articles, building on years of research and publications. The authors postulated that glycogen is a ...

Shoes can only take a runner so far in the quest for a sub-two hour marathon. In recent weeks, Nike and Adidas released their advanced footwear, but a few test runs have shown that fancy carbon fiber ...

Every time you do a hard workout, you provide a stimulus for your body to improve in some way, such as your lactate threshold, fat-burning ability, VO2 max, and so on. Any one workout, though, ...

You can’t get fitter without stress. I’m not talking about the psychological stress of, say, finding yourself stuck in a long airport security line while your flight is already boarding. Rather, I’m ...

A research team compared the effects of electrical stunning and carbon dioxide (CO₂) stunning on pork quality in commercial ...