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Approximately 19% of the carbohydrate content from a mixed meal is stored as liver glycogen in healthy humans, with net synthesis continuing for up to 4 hours post-meal.
Your liver stores about 28 grams of glycogen from a typical mixed meal, which is about 19% of the carbs you ate. This storage process takes up to 4 hours. This is a normal, healthy storage mechanism, not fat gain.
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This was equivalent to ~19% of the meal carbohydrate content... Net hepatic glycogen synthesis... continued for 4 h after the meal
Why this rating
Direct measurement via 13C-NMR spectroscopy, considered the gold standard for non-invasive glycogen measurement.
Source
Direct assessment of liver glycogen storage by 13C nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and regulation of glucose homeostasis after a mixed meal in normal subjects.
Roy Taylor et al. · Journal of Clinical Investigation · 1996
DOI 10.1172/jci118379
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