Why do these branching points remember the Alpha one six glycocitic bonds actually create the branching points in glycogen? Why do these branching points actually exist? And generally, how do these branching points in glycogen actually benefit the molecule as a whole? Well, there are two important benefits of these branching points. Remember that in skeletal muscle cells or in liver cells or any other cell of our body that contains these glycogen, the glycogen molecules are stored in tiny granules found in the cytoplasm. And the cytoplasm is predominantly water.