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    Default Stop Chasing High Insulin Levels.

    "Eat some candy after your workout, you need to keep those insulin levels high bro, that's how you get jacked". No "bro", it isn't.

    Insulin is a hormone that tells your body's cells to use the sugar in your blood. It is a so called "anabolic" hormone, which many people have interpreted to mean "muscle building".
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    The word anabolic, however, doesn't mean building muscle. It means building large molecules from smaller ones. In this case insulin helps your body take small glucose molecules from your blood and store them in your cells as larger sugar molecules called glycogen.
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    Insulin DOES play a role in muscle building though, but it works mainly by limiting muscle breakdown, rather then helping muscle buildup [1]. However, VERY low levels of insulin are needed to get these benefits [2, 3]. In fact, eating your protein will stimulate insulin levels enough to stop muscle breakdown [4, 5], and adding carbs for a "bigger" insulin response won't do any good.
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    So stop chasing high insulin levels to build muscle. Instead start chasing maximal volume at heavy enough loads, proper protein intake and enough recovery.
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    good explanation
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    Remember everything we eat triggers an insulin response to a certain degree. We all know about the glycemic index. How about the insulin index? You can get a higher insulin spike with regular whey protein than with sugar. The leaner the protein the higher the spike. The only reason carbs are added is not because of the insulin spike, but to refill the your glycogen.
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    Awesome point!!
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