HUMAN NUTRITION

Detailed explanation-1: -What happens when you have too much glycogen? Excess glycogen is stored in the liver where it may be used later for energy. Your muscles are also a storage area for glycogen. Excess glucose above this can be converted into triglycerides which are stored in your fat cells.

Detailed explanation-2: -The excess glucose that is not needed right away is stored as glycogen in the liver and muscle cells to use later. When the body needs more energy, enzymes break down glycogen into glucose, a process called glycogen metabolism or glycogenolysis.

Detailed explanation-3: -Glycogenesis is the process of storing excess glucose for use by the body at a later time. Glycogenolysis occurs when the body, which prefers glucose as an energy source, needs energy. The glycogen previously stored by the liver is broken down to glucose and dispersed throughout the body.

Detailed explanation-4: -Glycogen, the multibranched polysaccharide of glucose in humans, is how glucose gets stored by the body and mostly found in the liver and skeletal muscle. Try to think of glycogen as the body’s short-term storage of glucose (while triglycerides in adipose tissues serve as the long-term storage).