And water is a polar molecule. And ultimately what branching does is it increases the solubility of the glycogen inside that cytoplasm, inside these tiny granules found in the cytoplasm, the cell. Now, another important thing that adding these branching points does is it actually increases the rate at which glycogen synthesis and breakdown actually takes place. Why? Well, remember that glycogen breakdown and synthesis actually takes place on the terminal non reducing residues of that polymer. And so adding branches to glycogen increases the number of terminal glucose residues, which raises the rate of glycogen synthesis and breakdown.