Central Daylight Time (CDT) is 5 hours behind Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). This time zone is a Daylight Saving Time time zone and is used in: North America. This time zone is often called Central Daylight Time. See full time zone map.
Insulin reduces the amount of sugar in your bloodstream to an  acceptable level, and glucagon raises the amount of sugar in your  bloodstream to an acceptable level.   â¦   Glycogen is a stored type of the sugar, Glucose, that can readily  be added to the bloodstream by glucagon.
How glucagon works. Glucagon has an opposite (antagonistic) effect to insulin. When your blood glucose level falls, for example during exercise when your muscles are using glucose for fuel, your pancreas detects the drop in blood glucose.