The liver produces glucose through gluconeogenesis to prevent hypoglycemia, which is more dangerous than hyperglycemia during stress.

“do we have a sense of what the hepatic glycogen content is cuz I can't imagine the body would ever let anything compromise that given that if the liver can't produce glucose continuously the brain dies so it might be that this is true true and unrelated right it could be that the the muscles are depleting glycogen because of high utilization but the liver through glucan Genesis has plenty of glucose that's what's making it into the circulation because of hypercortisolemia because of other acute phase reactants and so we have hypoglycemia but it's all being mediated by the liver which has no trouble maintaining glycogen levels and again from an evolutionary perspective you much rather air on the side of hyperglycemia than hypoglycemia under period of stress”