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THREE FACTORS OF INSULIN AND YOUR PHYSIQUE
Three Important Factors Of Insulin and Your Physique
Eating to gain muscle and lose bodyfat can be a massive juggling act between
three important concepts. These three concepts are of course - energy balance
and the acute effects that eating has on hormones, metabolism, and energy storage.
So someone who argues that calorie balance is the only determinant in changing
body composition is making the situation too simplistic. And is quite simply
doomed to failure. This is often why you see so many overweight and out of shape
nutritionists and dieticians in the world. Bad research and over simplification
of concepts. The human body is far from a simple machine. Do not expect it to
be as simple as calories in verses out. It isn't. This is just one factor.
One of the goals of eating to grow should be to maximize the muscle gain to
fat gain ratio. Basically, if you want to pack on the most muscle with the least
amount of fat gain. To do this you need to understand which meal combinations
to pursue and which to avoid. The foundations of the recommendations in this
area are based on the avoidance of a nasty scenario. The worst case scenario
for someone trying to pack on muscle while minimizing fat gain is to have high
blood levels of carbs, fat, and insulin at the same time. This is deleterious,
not only to ones appearance, but to ones health.
This is nasty because chronic elevation of insulin can increase the rate of
transport of fats and carbs into fat cells. It is critically important, and
essential to note that although initially, insulin shuttles nutrients into muscle
cells, chronic insulin elevation will cause the muscles to become insulin resistant
and refuse to take up nutrients. The adipose tissues, however, are greedy little
pieces of cellular machinery and continue to take up nutrients at a rapid rate.
So if you always have high levels of blood fats and carbs in the presence of
insulin, your muscles will slow their uptake of nutrients and all that fat and
carbs will feed the fat cells. This is the typical result of long term, high
calorie weight gain diets. After a period of time, when insulin decreases in
sensitivity, one will find that progress screeches to a halt and the body becomes
one big fat sponge! You may notice this effect after five or six weeks of high
calorie weight gain that was at one time going really well and your muscles
full and big, suddenly becoming flatter and indeed fatter.
Before you make a rash decision and try to eliminate insulin, you must know
that insulin is very anabolic. Insulin can be utilised as apposed to abused,
and can become one of your most powerful hormones in the endeavour to create
a superior athletic physique. Insulin itself is responsible for carb and amino
acid delivery to the muscles for recovery and growth. So you need insulin, but
you need to control it. And when you eat to promote insulin surges, you've got
to be sure that you have the ideal profile of macronutrients in your blood to
ensure that this insulin surge leads to muscle gain and not fat gain. This is
where meal combinations come into play.
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