What are the negatives of high blood sugar related to bodybuilding? Well, one of the biggest issues that should scare most people is nerve damage. High blood sugar will destroy your nerves. What comes with this? Another common area that nerves get damaged is in the intestines causing severe digestive issues. The intestines start losing their ability to contract properly, bringing the waste moving through your bowels to a grinding halt. Contrary to popular belief, GH gut is actually not organ overgrowth but gas causing your abdomen to distend due to gas production caused by an overgrowth of bacteria feeding on all the carbs in the small intestine.
Carbohydrates should be nearly fully digested in the small intestine without this bacteria feasting on them. The small intestine is a near-sterile environment, unlike the large intestine where only fiber should make it down to.
Insulin use makes you a diabetic? Since its synthetic creation in , insulin has never once, EVER shown to cause diabetes. Insulin has been used in patients for decades long at hundreds to thousands of iu doses and patients have ALWAYS been able to come off regardless of the time used.
There is zero evidence or proof that insulin has ever caused diabetes, on the contrary, there is only evidence to support its use and having zero negative effects on your natural insulin production. Just like with the type 2 diabetic studies where every single participant was able to fully reverse their diabetes with diet alone actually, these studies happened to be repeated TWICE because even the medical community was shocked that every single participant was able to do so.
The huge point is that in over years there has never been a case of diabetes caused from using insulin, which would not even make any sense in the slightest to begin with. Firstly, and basically, there are 3 different types of insulin analogs insulin types.
Examples, Lantus was shown to increase appetite and weight gain in studies while Levemir was shown to cause weight loss and decrease appetite. So depending on what you are doing… should have an effect on the insulin you choose to use.
Trying to gain weight? I am sure you would not pick the insulin that lowers your appetite especially if you have a hard time eating as is. All insulins have a different amino acid sequences, they are not all the same in many ways.
Secondly, different insulin analogs have different binding affinity for the insulin receptor. Some are stronger than others while some are even weaker than the natural insulin you make. Thirdly, different insulin analogs have different effects on IGF-1 production. Some near doubling your IGF-1 production on a very minor dose. Lantus is our specialty here. Long-acting insulins like Lantus should be done once a day, in the morning.
Anyone telling you to use Lantus twice a day does not understand bodybuilding or the human body in this area at all. Long-acting insulin use dosed twice a day or before bed is for insulin resistant diabetics who cannot control their blood sugar levels and have constant high levels even when they are not eating and when they are sleeping.
So, they need this at that time so they are not asleep 8 hours letting high blood sugar levels destroy their bodies. Bodybuilders, on the other hand, are usually not this messed up even on very high doses of HGH. It is at its highest when we need it and want it, during our 16 hours awake when we are eating, so we can get more nutrients into the muscle and handle any possible high blood sugar levels in between meals if we have such an issue namely due to GH use or unhealthy eating.
Also, creating a second peak during sleep when we are not eating lessens the effects of our insulin needs during daytime during our feeding window since we split the dose ruining our optimal growth here, can also hurt your gains due to the fact when your insulin levels are high, and you are not eating, and blood sugar dips a little low, you have actually just gone catabolic.
Studies show insulin use being a strong anti-catabolic drug in nature, once we reach the point of not having enough glucose for our insulin levels, glucagon raises which then starts breaking down our muscle tissue for glucose to balance the even slightly high insulin level to glucose in your blood.
So if you use long-acting insulin twice a day, you will have lower levels in the daytime when you need it the most to optimally drive nutrients into muscle, and create a nice catabolic scenario during your non-feeding sleeping hours. Short-acting insulin use for a bodybuilder is the other choice. No intermediate medium acting here unless you are a diabetic having trouble controlling your blood sugar levels in between meals.
Otherwise, you are going to miss the peak hour for your meal of insulin levels and then go hypo when you have nothing in your body and possibly catabolic due to glucagon that I already talked about above.
Short-acting insulin is not too tricky, but you must also factor in your gastric emptying rate. Some are slower and some are faster than others.
As an example, even a doctor a good one will advise your needs might be 15 minutes before a meal or 15 minutes after a meal. Or if you notice you are going hypo long after a meal. You took your insulin too late for your meal and or your gastric emptying rate is fast. I personally find on average most do best with mins before a meal with items like Humalog a short-acting insulin.
Insulin dosing needs. Anyone who ever gives you a recommendation of insulin dosing is purely just playing a game of chance and hoping you are using the optimal amount and not to low and not too high. Do you need 4 or 18g? Even more? Who knows. Do you want to use less than optimal dosing where you are barely benefiting?
Example using 5iu and your sensitivity is not the best while eating g carbs a meal, and your body actually requires 25iu? For one, you are setting yourself up for negative health effects when you require such a high dose and just hoping 5iu gets the job done, leaving your body with high BG for hours on end. And two, you are not getting anywhere near the optimal amount of your nutrients into your muscles for optimal growth.
You just put yourself in a very dangerous state with lower nutrients and calories on insulin. We are not doing anything like intermittent fasting, or carb backloading here.
You will feed your body on a regular basis throughout the day! Post injection of insulin should be 10 grams carbs per every unit of insulin! Always be near sugar and food. Actually, make sure its on you! Buy a Glucometer! The electronic strips that you use with the meters are a 1 time deal, they usually come in bottles of 50 strips. Just tell your doctor that you would like to start monitoring your glucose levels on a regular basis.
Any doctor should write a script for that. No more than weeks on insulin! You do not want to turn yourself into a diabetic, therefore weeks max! Humulin-R, Nolvalog, and Humalog can be used only on days you train if you prefer, this would probably be better so your body does not get too accustomed to it.
Now with the 24 hour insulins like Lantus and Levemir, those you will need to take every day. Insulin is the most anabolic thing you can use.
One of the major issues, however, was the fact that these samples were often not very pure, making purity control a problem that could have dire consequences. But regardless of purity issues, people were willing to risk infection or death during this time period. Insulin treatment was often the only recourse people with diabetes had, and of course, diabetes without insulin treatment can mean terrible health issues and even death.
This is primarily why by the s, when the purity issues with insulin were solved, it was a major milestone for not only insulin but other exogenous treatments in general. Starting in the mid s, synthetic insulin would be introduced to the scene by a company called Ciba. By , the famous Humulin-R synthetic insulin was made, and it was a perfect facsimile for human-made insulin, and it immediately got FDA approval and has been a staple in diabetes treatment ever since.
Insulin works in a few very easy ways. For one, it works to prevent the metabolic breakdown of glycogen, fat, and protein. It is produced by the pancreas and is considered to be a peptide hormone. When it comes to those that suffer from diabetes, there are three kinds that result in the need for insulin supplementation. Another kind of insulin is Type 2 diabetes. This means that exogenous, injected insulin is the only way it can be synthesized in the body of an individual with Type 2.
Higher levels of insulin are also linked to protein synthesis, which is another incredibly valuable part of the muscle-building process in the body. Insulin being in high concentrations within the body also leads to higher levels of bone density, and it can also lead to higher concentrations of a peptide called IGF-1 , which is an acronym for Insuline-like Growth Factor 1.
It is incredibly anabolic, and it is structured very similarly to insulin, hence its name. As far as some additional benefits of high concentrations of insulin, it can also lead to higher levels of luteinizing hormone, and it can even crate more follicle stimulating hormone.
With the increased levels of the aforementioned hormones, it can essentially be linked to higher levels of testosterone. This means that despite its relatively unknown reputation as a performance enhance among casuals, there are a tremendous amount of benefits it has as a hormone, and it can definitely increase the performance of those looking to use it effectively.
No matter what sort of diabetes you might have, the essential outcome of insulin supplementation is that it results in controlling blood sugar. However, for those using it in other arenas, they like it because insulin is also very good at promoting anabolism and staving off catabolism.
They are willing to run the risks insulin brings just to enjoy its effects, albeit sometimes detrimental due to its fat-causing properties. If someone is planning to supplement with insulin, they have to be very methodical and planned-out in terms of their dieting and nutrition.
If any of the proverbial boxes are not checked, there are going to be major issues with insulin. As far as macronutrients go, fat intake should be heavily restricted because the margin for error is very, very slim. By doing this, the body will be more inclined to store the nutrients in muscle rather than other kinds of tissue.
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