Re: RC: Re: Re: water weight

[Tivers@aol.com]

In a message dated 12/23/99 8:43:08 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
michrowe@frontier.net writes:

<< at 60 mmol per hour per kg
 a 1000 lb horse is ~454 kg
 454*60 is 27272 mmol. per hour of glycogen used
 1 mmol glucose (H12C6O6) = 0.18 g
 27272 mmol = 4909 g = 4.9 kg = 10.7 lbs. of glycogen used
 
 So 10.7 lbs glycogen for a 1000 lb horse per hour.  How does that sound??
 
 m >>


Hmm, sounds high. that would mean, with the water released, 50 lbs of muscle 
weight loss per hour--assuming no replenishment. If you assume that 50% of 
the glycogen is replenished during that time, then you still are losing 25lb 
total mass from the muscle per hour. Too much, I think. And glycogen is a 
bigger molecule.

ti


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