Insulin Can Work for You or Against You….Here’s Why.
Creating the ‘METABOLIC SWITCH’!
By Darren Bain
Your body is use to synthesizing carbs for energy as this is our bodies preferred energy source, however when we consume excess carbohydrates we never tap into our fat stores and end up creating more fat and ultimately potential, severe health problems.
Why?
Firstly you need to understand insulin, insulin sensitivity, insulin resistance and the role of insulin in body composition and health problems like type II diabetes.
Insulin
Insulin is a very important hormone that can dictate your energy levels, how much fat and lean muscle mass you have. It is a complicated but very important hormone that needs to be understood and managed to achieve your Ultimate Physique & health goals.
When we eat carbohydrates they are converted into glucose for energy which rises in the blood stream, insulin is then secreted from the pancreas to process the blood glucose. In a healthy body the insulin binds with receptors on the cell, when a cell has insulin attached to it acts like a messenger to allow glucose into the cell to be used for energy.
Our goal is to make our muscle, fat & liver cells more receptive to insulins messengers and not ignore insulins messengers and become what is known as insulin resistant.
Insulin resistance ccurs when cells become resistant to insulin’s message, in an effort to be heard the pancreas will secrete more and more insulin. Excess insulin will create havoc on your body composition and health leading to type II diabetes amongst other serious issues..Consuming a diet high in carbs and in particular processed, high sugar type carbs is a recipe for insulin resistance which means excess fat gain particularly in the mid section and ultimately severe health conditions like type II diabetes.
The more insulin sensitive your cells are the more effective your cells will be at using energy aka fat – instead of insulin sending a message to fat cells to increase fat storage and decrease fat burning. Understanding Insulin
Depending on your goals and current Biosignature assessment will dictate the nutrition plan you go on for the 8 wk challenge, assuming your goal is to drop body fat you will be keeping carbs sufficiently low for the first 14 days on the ‘no carb mission’. By doing this your body switches to a fat metabolism; this is called the ‘Metabolic Switch’. Switching from a carbohydrate metabolism to a fat metabolism has some real advantages for anyone looking to transform their body due to increased Lipolysis (breakdown of fat), decreased Lipogenesis (accumulation of body fat) and increased insulin sensitivity.
Now I’m not going to tell you adopting to this new nutrition regime is going to be easy, as with anything new there is an adaption period. While the metabolic switch is occurring you may feel sluggish, get through the initial 7 -14 days and you will have more energy than ever, mental focus, improved ability to tolerate stress, clearer skin and improved sleep quality and quantity.
Please do not confuse this short period for the whole plan; your energy will be back up in no time, and for most people better than ever.
What’s important to understand is that carbs are not the enemy if we consume the correct carbs at the correct times in the correct amount – A zero carb policy for the majority of people is a misguided approach.
post weights session is when your body is most insulin sensitive and will benefit from their consumption. Doing so will spike your insulin levels which will shuttle amino acids into the muscle tissue and help recover and replenish your depleted muscle glycogen stores.
Our muscles are like tanks for glycogen, they fill up and empty again when we workout. Unfortunately when we eat too many carbs these tanks become over full, some glycogen is then stored in the liver and any excess is converted to triglycerides and stored as fat. This is where traditional high-carb diets can let you down?.
So why fill them at all?
Muscle glycogen means better performance in the gym. We load up on it and fill our tanks. By the end of our low-carb period we have once again emptied the tanks and we repeat the cycle over again. Sounds simple in theory and can be once you understand how to manipulate this powerful hormone to work for you and not against you – you’ll learn all about insulin and other powerful hormones in the 8 wk challenge
If you’re struggling to get rid of the spare tyre around your waist and want to become a ‘fat-burner’ and not a ‘fat storer’ register for the Ultimate Physique Enhancement 8 Week Challenge TODAY!
Your spare tyre will be glad you did……
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