Today we will be speaking on Insulin surges and how they affect your body.
I apologize there are unanswered questions on the comments sections. I will get to everyone one of them. I am told Manny Pacquiao is building his own Social Network and will have it released within the next day or two. One of their goals is to have a video chat feature installed quickly. I will be able to use this feature to chat with my friends on here and answer questions in person in person as well.
I did see some great questions and look forward to our continued dialogs.
First thing I want to discuss is: What is Insulin?
It?s a hormone produced by the pancreas. Insulin is necessary for glucose to be able to enter the cells of the body. Once it enters the cells it will be used for energy.
Glucose is formed from carbohydrates. So basically you eat a carbohydrate, it enters your body and is turned into glucose. Your pancreas releases insulin to grab the glucose and carry into your cells for energy.
You body uses insulin to regulate your body?s blood sugar levels. Insulin does not let your body drop its blood sugar levels too high or too low.
Since Insulin transports glucose to the muscle cells that means Insulin is very anabolic. The reason for this is it allows for amino acids to be utilized much better and much faster in the human body.
An Insulin spike, generally occurs when you eat foods that are high in the glycemic index. What this means is foods that have simple sugars in them. The higher the glycemic index that a food is, the more simple the sugars are and the quicker they enter your bloodstream.
Studies have shown that insulin replenishes glycogen stores in the liver, stops protein breakdown after a workout, and increases amino acid uptake into the body. Well this all sounds good for us athletes, but unfortunately, as everything, there is a downside.
Insulin plays an extremely large role in storing fat. Whenever insulin is released, glucose stores are stored as glycogen in the liver for energy, as stated earlier.
If your glycogen stores are depleted then a higher amount of Insulin can help you by transporting amino acid faster to muscle cells, but if your glycogen levels are full extra glucose gets transported directly into the fat cells, causing fat to be stored.
Basically the way to look at this is; It is bad to eat simple sugars on a regular basis; this is just another reason showing you why it is bad to eat them. When you?re not using your energy for something useful, and consume lots of simple sugars into the body, you get fat.
Just because something says, ?Non-fat food? it is NOT ?non-fat.?
Look at the sugar on the ingredient label. It is ?Non-fat? until it enters your body.
Most likely this product is a simple sugar and will be stored in the fat cells, because that is where your insulin will take it.
Which is the reason we try to avoid Insulin spikes and simple sugars.
We will get into a lot more simple detail when we start going over good diets to put together with good work out programs. This is just covering some needed knowledge I think people should know.
On another note. I can not thank all of you enough for all of your nice comments and gestures. They make me feel great and inspire me to do a great job.
Thank you so much for the great comments. I really had no idea this type of support was out there.
Alex
