Glucagon Triggers Ketosis, Insulin Blocks It

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so i’ve created a lot of videos on insulin and blood sugars and diabetes but there’s another hormone that works with insulin that i haven’t talked about very often so i wanted to cover it and make it really simple it’s called glucagon it sounds like glucose but it’s not glucose it’s a hormone that opposes insulin so it kind of works in opposite to insulin so let’s just take a look at what glucagon does in relationship to ketosis ketosis is a state of fat burning glucagon turns the switch on for ketosis insulin turns it off so insulin blocks ketosis glucagon releases stored sugar stored sugar is called glycogen okay and your liver in your muscles so glucagon will release this into glucose as fuel insulin will store glucose as glycogen and as fat whereas glucagon will release the stored sugar glycogen into glucose and it’ll turn the fat into ketones okay so it’s just the opposite function so insulin lowers the sugar in the blood glucagon will raise it where does it get the sugar from right here the stored sugar and the fat so it’s a counter hormone to insulin so let’s say for example you have too much insulin and it shoves your blood sugar way down and you get hypoglycemia okay you get the shakes and you’re craving everything well normally glucagon is supposed to kick in there and counter that it’s kind of like a counter regulating hormone that keeps the blood sugars where it needs to be realize that glucagon is one of the fat burning hormones as well now if we take a look at insulin insulin is the dominating hormone in other words in the presence of insulin glucagon will be lowered insulin knocks you out of ketosis glucagon puts you into ketosis insulin is triggered by carbohydrates protein okay and eating right here protein now you’re probably thinking wow protein’s going to knock me out of ketosis well look at over here glucagon also is triggered by protein so protein will trigger both hormones so that will counter the negative effect of insulin fyi so you don’t have to worry about protein knocking a lot of ketosis unless you consume a lot of it vigorous exercise will trigger glucagon adrenaline will trigger glucagon what triggers adrenaline vigorous exercise stress will do it too this is one of the reasons why people will lose weight during stress but chronic stress they gain weight because the cortisol when you experience stress acute stress you have more adrenaline chronic stress you’re going to have more cortisol issues now there’s a thing called GIP this is a hormone that’s triggered by eating so look over here every time you eat insulin is triggered every time you eat glucogon is triggered as well again we have a situation where eating will trigger insulin but also glucagon when eating protein you’ll stimulate both hormones now when you’re fasting you will trigger glucagon and when you’re eating you’ll trigger insulin what will inhibit glucagon high sugar in the diet and insulin i hope you got that but that’s the simplicity of what glucagon is hey we’re back with another amazing recipe no grains no sugar totally keto there’s no suffering on keto absolutely not karen and it’s an immune system builder absolutely you have to check this out i think you should hurry up watch the recipe and make it yourself it’s just so easy to be keto but is it simple it’s super simple we hope you enjoy making it as much as we are enjoying eating it