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Let's talk about insulin's partner, glucagon.

Now, glucagon sounds like glucose because it's involved in the regulation of glucose.

Let's just talk about what this hormone is because I don't want to neglect this very

important hormone glucagon simply because I'm emphasizing this insulin in almost 50%

of my videos, but let's take a look at this.

Insulin has a job of pushing the blood sugar down.

It takes the sugar out of the blood to regulate the blood sugar, so it gets triggered

by a high carb diet, and that's what insulin does.

It's constantly pushing things down, it's doing other things as well, like storing fat

and storing glucose as glycogen, but it's helping you regulate blood sugars by lowering

it to a normal level, right?

Then you have this hormone glucagon that's pushing it up, so it's countering it, and

both of these hormones work together to keep your blood sugar at normal.

So, glucagon is kind of like a counter-regulatory hormone to prevent hypoglycemia because if

you have a massive amount of carbohydrate and massive amounts of insulin, that could

push this thing way down here to a dangerous level where your blood sugar, there's nothing

left, and your body can't have that.

So, this is one of the hormones that will help bring it back up.

So what does it do?

It mobilizes glycogen, which is stored sugar to glucose in your liver, so it's kind of

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