Nick Bare

What happens when you actively consume carbohydrates?

When you eat carbs, your digestive system breaks them down into glucose.

Glucose is in the simplest form how your body utilizes carbohydrates.

When glucose enters the bloodstream after consumption, digestion, blood sugar rises.

So this is your body's natural response to consuming carbohydrates.

turns into glucose, blood sugar rises.

Now the spike of that blood sugar will be dependent upon the source of the carbohydrate.

Is it a simple sugary carb or is it more complex?

And then the amount or load of that carbohydrate.

So if you have a very just simple sugary carbohydrate source,

table sugar, for example, or candy, and you have a lot of it, say a hundred grams, you're going to have a very fast and dramatic blood sugar spike and rise.

So your body responds to this and it responds with insulin.

So your pancreas creates and releases insulin in response to a blood sugar spike.

What insulin does, it helps clear the glucose from the bloodstream.

So insulin helps move glucose from the bloodstream into your cells.

And inside the cells, glucose is converted into ATP.

which is the energy source that the body can use for example, muscle contraction, brain function, organ activity, daily movement, intense training, et cetera, et cetera.

ATP is, it's the energy source of the human body.

Now, as a side note, I recently recorded a podcast all about creatine.

and how creatine is used in the body and why, in my opinion, everyone should be supplementing with creatine for both the physical and the mental cognitive benefits.