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The Overlooked Impact of Insulin Clearance on Your Health and Physique | Plus: How to Balance Your Clearance Rates?

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A physique like this is partly a result of insulin management  not of zero insulin! Insulin and cortisol... What do the two have in common? Yes, both are hormones. Yes, both are absolutely essential for us to survive (yes, bro, no denying - they are!). And yes, both have developed the aura of being a threat to our health and physique inside and (over the past 20 years) outside of the fitness and bodybuilding community. Today, every child appears to know: "Insulin and cortisol make you fat. Cortisol is the mothref*cker that gave papa a heart attack and insulin is the bitch that's responsible that mommy needs two instead of one seat on the plane. Damn b*tches, these hormones." Fasting  almost certainly will increase insulin clearance, too  - and there are other benefits: Monthly 5-Day Fast Works "Lean Gains" Fast Works Habits Determine Effects of Fasting Protein Modified Fast 4 Health IF + Resistance Training = WIN ADF Beats Ca-lorie Re...
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Ketone Ester Supplement Boosts Trainees' Post-Exercise Glycogen Repletion by 18% in Insulin-Clamp Study, But...

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For the average gymrat, the 18% increase in glycogen repletion PWO is 100% irrelevant and the amounts of glucose you'd need to facilitate it (even w/ ketones) would do more harm than good to your health and physique goals. Who would have thought that? A ketone ester drink ramps up the already elevated insulin levels you'll see after the post-workout ingestion of a bolus of glucose. Probably everyone who doesn't vilify insulin and believes blindly in the label claims of supplement producers. After all,  D-β-hydroxybutyrate has long been known to promote insulin secretion in animals - two decades ago Laughlin et al. were among the first to realize their insulinogenic prowess (Lauglin 1994). Even before Laughlin et al. researchers suspected that the ketone-body-induced increases in insulin will go hand in hand with a significant increase in glycogen synthesis as it has been observed in vitro 40 years ago by Maizels et al (1977). What would be  news, though, is the fact ...
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Green Tea Extract Reduces the Amount of Insulin You Need to Store Your PWO Carbs by ~20% + Discussed: What are the Potential Benefits During Bulking and Cutting?

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The beneficial effects of green tea won't occur if you just put some GTE into your post-workout shake... well, at least they didn't occur in response to acute supplementation in the study at hand, where 3x350mg/d consumed for 7 days before a std. exercise + oral glucose tolerance test  did the insulin lowering trick. While green tea has a record of promoting the metabolic and overall health of the obese and sick, its benefits in healthy individuals are still an object of ongoing research. Research such as the latest study from the McMaster University, in which Brian J. Martin et al. (2016) evaluated the effect of supplementation with green tea extract (GTE) on the plasma glucose kinetics of eleven healthy, sedentary men (21±2 y; BMI=23±4 kg/m², VO2peak=38±7 ml/kg/min; mean±SD). Now, this alone would probably not be SuppVersity  newsworthy, but  unlike other studies that assessed the effects of GTE on glucose management, Martin's study tested the effec...
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True or False? Adding Fat to A Carby Meal Lowers Insulin Response. Muscle Hypertrophy Impairs Oxygen Diffusion. Reducing Carb Intake Improve Muscular Insulin Sensitivity

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Will the additional butter on top of the potatoes reduce the insulin response? You can find the answer to this and the other questions in today's episode of "True or False?" If you are a regular here at the SuppVersity you should by now recognize the "True or False" part of the headline of today's SuppVersity article. Therefore it's probably unnecessary to say this explicitly, but this is a new series, where I could use a little help from your side. Well, ... I should say, I believe it would become even more fun, if you lend me a hand and send me short pieces of wisdom or idiocy like "Adding fat to a carby meal reduces the insulin response"  you deem worthy of being addressed in the True or False series. I cannot, or rather will not promise that I will address each and every of your suggestions, but if it interests me and can be tackled in a 2-3 paragraph text, your chances ain't bad to get your suggestions dealt with - if you got ...
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