Psychology 2036A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Glycerol, Glycogen, Pyruvic Acid
22 May 2020
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Different types of terrain (flat, mountain, etc. ) Some days people with certain characteristics will do better, others someone else will shine. People from all kinds of sport backgrounds contest (exc. You have to be incredibly aerobically fit just to complete the race. Drop in glucose during exercise we need to bring them back up to normal levels. At rest after a big meal, glucose goes up, insulin released from pancreas, activates glut- carriers which enables passage of glucose through cell membrane into cell. When glucose is low glucagon is released and brings glucose back up. Type 1 diabetes: cannot produce diabetes (need injections) Type 2 diabetes: produce insulin but due to inactivity/ obesity they develop insulin resistance (can"t facilitate movement of glucose into cell itself) Once glucose is in cell it will either get stored as glycogen (glycogen synthase) (if inactive) During exercise, glycogen is being released into glycolytic pathway.
