tortillas they have pizza crust it is unreal they're at a lot of whole foods stores but also you can get them online so there's a special link with special pricing for unbun they're a supporter of this channel i'm on their advisory board i help them out with a lot of things it's awesome so that link is down below you can get a special discount and check them out a big thank you to them so i'm serious though like their tortillas like you mix that up with a little bit of good quality deli meat a little bit of cheese make a little wrap like it's you don't get to have that stuff when you're doing low carb and someone finally made a low carb tortilla that is not full of gluten and not full of garbage so huge shout out to them they are insanely cool and again that link with a special discount is down below in the description so check them out after this video all right so it's been NUMBER_TOKEN hours since you had your last carb you're freaking out a little bit here's what's happening you have this little guy called glucagon okay this glucagon is a hormone that is the opposite of insulin when you eat carbs you have a spike in insulin okay when you stop eating carbs your insulin levels go down but in the opposite world of insulin we have glucagon and it's glucagon's job to say well there's no carbs coming in so we need to go find fuel from other sources okay so we're going to follow them along a little bit so after about NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN hours of not eating carbs all of a sudden your liver is drained of carbohydrates so for that first NUMBER_TOKEN hours you've been running on carbohydrates that were stored in your liver it's like a little sack of sugar hanging out in your body secreting little bits of glucose for your cells to use but uh oh red alert at about NUMBER_TOKEN hours that liver just ran out so what happens now well it starts moving on to the next tissue starts trying to find ways to liberate more glucose in fact there was a study that was published in fa seb journal that found that when carbs were eliminated glucagon levels were universally elevated so people that were on low carb or no carb diets universally you saw glucagon being elevated so it's definitely responsible for this okay well people think that once you burn through the liver carbs that your body starts automatically burning through the carbs in your muscles it's not quite that easy okay like the carbs that are in your muscles those get burned more through like activity and things like that your body doesn't just like drain those stores especially if you're not active so glucagon is like uh okay the liver is now empty of carbohydrates so body's starting to panic a little bit so what does glucagon do it goes to the next tissue in this case it's fat so it goes to the adipocyte the fat cell knocks on the door and it says hey fat cell uh we're out of carbs you mind loading up into the bloodstream so we can have some fuel for this guy and the fat says all right sure so you have this thing called hormone-sensitive lipase that sits on the outside of a fat cell it reaches in it grabs the fat out of the fat cell and the fat cell turns
START_SPONSOR_TOKEN tortillas they have pizza crust it is unreal they're at a lot of whole foods stores but also you can get them online so there's a special link with special pricing for unbun they're a supporter of this channel i'm on their advisory board i help them out with a lot of things it's awesome so that link is down below you can get a special discount and check them out a big thank you to them so i'm serious though like their tortillas like you mix that up with a little bit of good quality deli meat a little bit of cheese make a little wrap like it's you don't get to have that stuff when you're doing low carb and someone finally made a low carb tortilla that is not full of gluten and not full of garbage so huge shout out to them they are insanely cool and again that link with a special discount is down below in the description so check them out after this video END_SPONSOR_TOKEN