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THE INSULIN INDEX
Introduction to the Insulin Index
Many people ask themselves many questions regarding their diet and their training.
In regards nutrition one of the single biggest factors that is going to affect
the results that you achieve in terms of maximal muscle gain and optimal fat
burning is down to the way that your body metabolises food. For many years people
have been obsessed as stated with low fat, high carbohydrate diets. These days
there seems to be equal emphasis on low carb, high fat diets. And with the years
of research came much light based upon the glycaemic index and how your pancreas
and insulin metabolise the foods that you eat. However, the single biggest leap
forward in human nutrition, particular important to your health and training
results is that of the insulin indexing of foods. This is the most important
piece of information that you could ever learn in relation to the foods types
and quantities that you consume on a daily basis in your efforts to improve
the results from your training.
We recommend that for you to fully understand the insulin index you read the
section contained within the website on your insulin hormone itself. Insulin
is a hormone that regulates the metabolism of carbohydrates, fats, and starches
in the body, and it promotes muscle uptake of amino acids for making proteins.
Understanding your endocrine system and in particular, your pancreas and the
relation of insulin in building muscle, storing and breaking down fats. Insulin
is probably the single most important hormone that will make or break your physique
and your health and life span. Insulin is a hormone released into the blood
by an internal organ called the pancreas. Insulin functions in many ways as
an anabolic or a storage hormone; in fact it's been called the most anabolic
hormone. When insulin is released into the bloodstream, it acts to shuttle glucose
[carbohydrates], amino acids, and blood fats into the cells of the body. "Which
cells?" you ask. Well, fat and muscle cells are the important ones in terms
of quantity. Now, if these nutrients go predominantly into muscles, then the
muscles grow and body fat is managed. If these nutrients go predominantly into
fat, then muscle mass is unaffected and body fat is increased.
So obviously if there were a way to send nutrients preferentially into muscle
rather than fat, trainees would have more muscle mass and less fat mass. That's
the goal of a good quality training and eating program - to increase the muscle
uptake of nutrients preferentially.
Learning, understanding and applying the glycaemic index in the section on
the glycaemic index will allow your to understand much theory towards food consumption
and how it is absorbed and used. The insulin index is probably the next missing
link.
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