How you guys optimize insulin?

[Coco0177]

Hey lads,

I am wondering what you guys are doing either by habits, nutrition but also towards pharmacology in terms of your insulin sensitivity!

Personally I do carb cycling and use high and low carb days

For supplements I use mainly
Omega 3
Cinnamon and chromium
Selectively berberine
ALA
Carnitine combination of tartrate and alcar 3gr and 2gr for different reasons

My training is mainly heavy duty influenced and I do each time a hit of 20seconds on 1 minute active rest on assault bike as my cardio for 2-3 rounds with maximum intensity.

What has worked for you?

 

[unimog]

Since i train at night i try to have my insulin peak after my workout because insulin is anti-catabolic, and for muscle gain is basically what you want. For breakfast i try to eat 0 carbs, only meat and eggs, then at lunch i start to introduce carbs with veggies, so that the fiber in the veggies slows the digestion of those carbs. then pre workout i have like 25g of maltodextrin and after training where i want to have my insulin peak i take 80g of dextrose or malto and 15g of eaa. Basically i try to do a "intermittent fasting" of carbs. In terms of pharmacology, as you said berberine and also metformin are good ways to control your glucose levels, also GLP-1 agonist and of course exogenous insulin. but most of these if not all should only probably be used by people that are big, eating a lot and taking high dosages of hgh (hgh is hyperglycemic).

 

[Coco0177]

Since i train at night i try to have my insulin peak after my workout because insulin is anti-catabolic, and for muscle gain is basically what you want. For breakfast i try to eat 0 carbs, only meat and eggs, then at lunch i start to introduce carbs with veggies, so that the fiber in the veggies slows the digestion of those carbs. then pre workout i have like 25g of maltodextrin and after training where i want to have my insulin peak i take 80g of dextrose or malto and 15g of eaa. Basically i try to do a "intermittent fasting" of carbs. In terms of pharmacology, as you said berberine and also metformin are good ways to control your glucose levels, also GLP-1 agonist and of course exogenous insulin. but most of these if not all should only probably be used by people that are big, eating a lot and taking high dosages of hgh (hgh is hyperglycemic)

Using carbs a bit more. Around training and not generally was something I wanted to try more. I'll try to do something similar. +1 on berberine and metformin. That's why I also said selectively berberine. I don't think it fits any situation just because we need to have insulin sensitivity. It's a good tool for the right environment