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1
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How much glucose is circulating in your blood right now

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About one hours worth, if I had no backup, i’d die after that

2
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Most efficient energy storage form?

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Fat

3
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What tissues can only use glucose for energy production

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nerves (brain), rbcs, wbcs, renal tubules

4
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Remember this about muscle

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  • It is about 50% of body mass in a fit person and uses about 30% of the oxygen we consume.
  • It is a GREAT thing that muscle loves to use Fatty Acids and Ketone bodies for energy because this spares glucose from oxidation
5
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Most immediate source of glucose INSIDE the body is?

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Hepatic Glycogen

6
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What organ is most responsive to insulin, receives the most insulin? And what does insulin do?

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The liver receives the most insulin, is most responsive to Insulin.

Insulin inhibits hepatic glucose output and thus increases glucose uptake/

7
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Objectives during and right after a meal?

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1) TO FILL glycogen stores
2) TO not spill any glucose into the urine
3) To utilize ingested carbs and fat for energy and to package the excess carbs and fats.

8
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What is the best and most common way of packing carbs and fats for use at a later time?

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TAGS (FUCKING REMEMBER THIS!!) M1s know this better than you and that is bad. TRI- ACYL- GLYCEROLS

9
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KNOW THE GLUCOSE FATTY ACID CYCLE

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ok

10
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What are the objectives between meals?

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1) Keep Glucose at a relatively constant level (above 70 for brain and never function)
2) Decrease glucose utilization in organs where it is not a neccesity
3) Keep some glycogen reserves
4) Burn fats for energy (FA, KB)
Utilize sparable proteins

11
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In regards to hormones that act on metabolism, what are the short acting hormones

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Insulin
Epinephrine and Norepinephrine
Glucagon

12
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What is the primary mechanism (basic) of the short acting hormones?

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Increase or Decrease the enzyme or protein ACTIVITY

Activity meaning the sensitivity of enzymes to hormonal or allosteric regulators

13
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What are the long acting hormones on metabolism?

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Growth Hormone
Thyroid hormone
Gluccocorticoids
Sex steroids

14
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What is the mechanism of the long acting hormones?

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Increase or decrease the enzyme of protein AMOUNT

15
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Growth hormone’s effects on protein synthesis after a meal

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increases it

16
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T3’s affect on protein synthesis after a meal?

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increases it.

17
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What actions does Cortisol have between meals?

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Permissive actions.

Allows gluconeogenesis and lipolysis

18
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GH in between meals

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lowers glucose utilization and increases lipolysis

19
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T3 in between means

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inc in lipolysis

20
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KNOW the graph regarding the synergistic effects of cortisol, glucagon, and epinephrine

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ok

21
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What are the big lipolytic substances?

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Epinephrine and Norepinephrine

Stimulate cAMP and activates Hormone sensitive lipase to convert TAG into Fatty Acids. THIS IS VERY BASIC>MUST KNOW

22
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Major anti-lipolytic hormone

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insulin…does the opposite to cAMP and hormone sensitive lipase.

23
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What three hormones make Norepinephrine and Epinephrine more lipolytic?

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Cortisol, growth hormone, T3

24
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Glucocorticoids promote gluconeogenesis in many ways

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In the liver:

  • They have previously induced synthesis of key gluconeogenic and amino acid metabolizing enzymes
  • They raise the hepatic responsiveness to glucagon

Peripherally they drive amino acid release from muscle and glycerol release in adipose which turns into glucose in the liver.

25
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Know the figure on control of hypoglycemia

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ok

26
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SNS activity decreases while we’re eating a meal and increases again afterwards

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ok

27
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What happens to growth hormone as you fast for a number of days

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continues to rise

28
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Glucagon as you fast?

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rises up to about 150 and holds steady

29
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Cortsiol during fasting

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stays pretty constant

30
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T3 during fasting

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falls….decreases T4 to T3 conversion since T3 increases BMR

31
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KNOW THE BIG FEEDING AND FASTING CHART

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ok

32
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Between meals, what does COrtisol do?

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Has PERMISSIVE ACTIONS
- allows for gluconeogenesis and lipolysis
- mild reduction in glucose uptake and utilization.
Remmeber, Cortisol wants glucose to be in the blood

33
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GH between meals

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similar to cortisol