Liver blindness is a cultural disorder. It is experienced by doctors, health professionals, nutritionist, dietitians, trainers, recreational and professional athlete and just about everyone in between. Being liverblind or having liver blindness is to not understand the importance of the liver in human metabolism.

It is very important to understand the role of the liver and what it does for you. Or even worse, what happens if you don't take care of it. The liver is widely ignored in human metabolism. Can you tell me what it does? If you can't then there is a good chance you are liverblind. Don't worry though, it isn't your fault for not knowing.

So what does the liver do for our metabolism? Well, the liver is the key organ in metabolism during exercise and recovery. The liver stores glycogen which is the only fuel the brain uses and the only place it can ever get it is from the liver.

The more important question is what happens if the liver runs low on glycogen? Once exercise is initiated, the liver begins depleting its glycogen store to quickly fuel the brain and now the muscles. As depletion continues, a stress protein, IGFBP-1 is release from the liver to warn the brain of low liver glycogen levels.

Just a little stress, no big deal right? Sorry but it gets worse. Your muscles use an insulinic factor (IGF-1) to drive glucose (glycogen) into the muscle cells. Glucose is the fuel that powers your muscles. When your liver releases the stress protein is "binds" the insulinic factor. What this means is it restricts the amount of fuel the muscles get. What does that mean? Degraded physical performance.

Fueling the liver and maintaining a good liver glycogen store allows for free IGF-1, which in turn allow for increased glucose delivery into muscles, increased glucose oxidation, and therefore increased power output/improved physical performance.

Fueling with fructose in the correct ratio with glucose is the key to proper liver fueling for exercise and for optimum recovery. RevHoney gives you that correct ratio all in one natural energy shot.