Scientists have reversed diabetic heart failure with a genetic therapy in mice and a miniature human hearts made from stem ...

Neural activity leads to the mobilization of energy from glycogen in astrocytes. A new paper reports that neurons have an ambivalent relationship with glycogen: they can synthesize it themselves, but ...

Discover the challenges of replenishing glycogen on a low-carb diet, plus tips for managing energy needs after a workout.

Fuel your lifts with the nutrient your muscles crave most. Keep glycogen topped up and unlock higher training volume, faster recovery, and bigger gains. Start eating for peak performance and push past ...

Storage of glycogen is essential for glucose homeostasis and for energy supply during bursts of activity and sustained muscle work. We describe three siblings with profound muscle and heart glycogen ...

Remarkable new findings about the sugar stores in neurons have unlocked an entire new method of treating Alzheimer's disease and other cognitive decline, and it goes a long way to explaining why there ...

Eating carb-rich foods after exercising promotes the release of the hormone insulin, which helps shuttle sugar from your blood into your muscle cells, where it’s stored as glycogen (2). It also helps ...

Unexplained left ventricular hypertrophy often prompts the diagnosis of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a sarcomere-protein gene disorder. Because mutations in the gene for AMP-activated protein kinase γ ...

Carbohydrates are the body’s preferred energy source when working at higher intensities. So, eating carbs a few hours before ...

The more depleted people’s glycogen stores before carb loading, the bigger the boost afterward. In reality, this might mean a ...