A lil snippet of an article on insulin I am working on. I've posted it before I think not sure though.
Will Insulin make me fat if I eat fat?
The simple answer is no. Insulin will make you fat if you eat too many calories for you body’s needs while it is active. Just like eating more calories than you need make you fat.
Over and over in insulin threads this motto is stated, “If you eat fat after you inject slin then it will automatically store it as fat.” That is foolishness. First a little about how insulin acts in the body.
Insulin and Lipid Metabolism
The metabolic pathways for utilization of fats and carbohydrates are deeply and intricately intertwined. Considering insulin's profound effects on carbohydrate metabolism, it stands to reason that insulin also has important effects on lipid metabolism. Notable effects of insulin on lipid metabolism include the following:
* Insulin promotes synthesis of fatty acids in the liver. As discussed above, insulin is stimulatory to synthesis of glycogen in the liver. However, as glycogen accumulates to high levels (roughly 5% of liver mass), further synthesis is strongly suppressed.
When the liver is saturated with glycogen, any additional glucose taken up by hepatocytes is shunted into pathways leading to synthesis of fatty acids, which are exported from the liver as lipoproteins. The lipoproteins are ripped apart in the circulation, providing free fatty acids for use in other tissues, including adipocytes, which use them to synthesize triglyceride.
* Insulin inhibits breakdown of fat in adipose tissue by inhibiting the intracellular lipase that hydrolyzes triglycerides to release fatty acids.
Insulin facilitates entry of glucose into adipocytes, and within those cells, glucose can be used to synthesize glycerol. This glycerol, along with the fatty acids delivered from the liver, are used to synthesize triglyceride within the adipocyte. By these mechanisms, insulin is involved in further accumulation of triglyceride in fat cells.
We can see here the description of insulin as a shuttling agent that will just shove whatever you give it in a similar tissue type is wrong. Insulin motivates the use of nutrients available to the body. When insulin begins decreasing the levels of glucose in the blood it shuttles them to muscle tissue, the brain and the liver. When the muscles and brain are saturated the liver begins storing glucose. This is the stage that causes problems. When the liver becomes saturated with glucose (roughly 5% of its weight) it will begin shuttling the excess glucose into adipose tissue. This is where fat storage begins.
So how do we avoid getting fat from insulin?
It is easy, know your body. This is a perquisite for using insulin or Anabolic Androgenic Steroids (AAS) in the first place. We want to give our body the amount of energy it needs to recover. And we want to be sure to not give it to much or it will begin making fat very efficiently. What does your body need after a work out? This formula has been tried both scientifically and in gyms around the world.
Carbohydrates: 0.8-1.0 g/kg of bodyweight
Protein: 0.4-0.6 g/kg of bodyweight
This is an ideal formula to drink 10-15 minutes after injecting insulin. Within an hour of the shot you should have a more solid meal. I suggest going a bit above this perhaps to 1.2 g/kg for carbs and .8-.9 g/kg for protein since insulin will enable the body to store more glucose. If this works for you great, if you still feel hypo or think you work out hard enough to justify more than increase it slowly and see how your body reacts.
