drtbear1967
Musclechemistry Board Certified Member
One of the best things you can do to optimize body comp is improve insulin sensitivity. It'll be easier to build muscle and lose fat. Insulin is a storage/anabolic hormone. Anabolic means "to add." It's released mostly in response to an increase in blood sugar. Insulin is triggered by the need to lower blood glucose back down to normal, and it does so by favoring the entry of glucose into the storage facilities like muscle and fat cells, the liver, and brain. If you're more insulin sensitive, you won't need to produce as much insulin in response to an increase in blood sugar levels, and if you're resistant any increase in blood glucose can really jack up insulin release.
The more of a hormone you produce or release, the longer it'll take for that hormone to go back down to baseline. Insulin directly increases storage of nutrients into the various reserves, including fat cells. So if insulin is high and there's a lot of fat present at the same time, you'll increase fat storage. Also, elevated insulin reduces fat mobilization. As long as insulin stays elevated, you'll be inefficient at losing fat. If you're more sensitive to insulin, you don't need to produce as much to get the job done, which means it doesn't stay high for as long and you can spend more time being in a fat loss state.
The more of a hormone you produce or release, the longer it'll take for that hormone to go back down to baseline. Insulin directly increases storage of nutrients into the various reserves, including fat cells. So if insulin is high and there's a lot of fat present at the same time, you'll increase fat storage. Also, elevated insulin reduces fat mobilization. As long as insulin stays elevated, you'll be inefficient at losing fat. If you're more sensitive to insulin, you don't need to produce as much to get the job done, which means it doesn't stay high for as long and you can spend more time being in a fat loss state.
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