Comments on: Shouldn’t GLUCONEOGENESIS take place in a insulin dependent (diabetes mellitus) person,NOT Glycogenesis? http://diabetes-treatment-and-cure.com/diabetes/shouldnt-gluconeogenesis-take-place-in-a-insulin-dependent-diabetes-mellitus-personnot-glycogenesis Everything you need to know about treating diabetes. Fri, 30 Jul 2010 07:57:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: lisse_aranel http://diabetes-treatment-and-cure.com/diabetes/shouldnt-gluconeogenesis-take-place-in-a-insulin-dependent-diabetes-mellitus-personnot-glycogenesis/comment-page-1#comment-2336 lisse_aranel Sat, 04 Jul 2009 14:48:52 +0000 http://diabetes-treatment-and-cure.com/diabetes/shouldnt-gluconeogenesis-take-place-in-a-insulin-dependent-diabetes-mellitus-personnot-glycogenesis#comment-2336 Insulin is just a hormone, it is not involved in the metabolic processes that it stimulates. Hormones are usually metabolised and removed form the body as waste after they have spent a certain amount of time circulating in the body. So, although insulin IS a protein, it is not broken down and used to form glycogen. Instead, it stimulates glucose uptake by some cells and then the glucose that is waken into the cells are used to form glycogen (glycogenesis). Insulin is just a hormone, it is not involved in the metabolic processes that it stimulates. Hormones are usually metabolised and removed form the body as waste after they have spent a certain amount of time circulating in the body.

So, although insulin IS a protein, it is not broken down and used to form glycogen. Instead, it stimulates glucose uptake by some cells and then the glucose that is waken into the cells are used to form glycogen (glycogenesis).

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