"Today I want to talk about growth hormone. From what I’ve gathered over the past couple of weeks, there seems to be a prevailing notion that eating carbohydrates at night will somehow prevent natural growth hormone release from occurring and therefore hinder muscle protein synthesis. This is presumably due to carbohydrates causing insulin to be raised and therefore causing growth hormone to be inhibited. As some of you may already be aware, growth hormone secretion is at its maximum during sleep. It makes sense to want to maximize your natural hormonal milieus in order to promote anabolism. However, what proponents of this misconstrued theory choose to forget – or just flat out don’t know – is that insulin, too, is anabolic. Nonetheless, for argument’s sake, I will solely focus on growth hormone and how a carbohydrate meal at night might – potentially (never?) – lead to less muscle protein synthesis. " N.B. Indeed, you need insulin, but you must learn how to balance the anabolic effects against the fat storage effects; to trick it into making you muscular while making you lean at the same time. And this is done two major ways; first by increasing insulin sensitivity in the muscle while decreasing insulin sensitivity in the fat cells and, second, by controlling the insulin released during specific times of the day.
Posted on: Sat, 08 Jun 2013 21:57:47 +0000
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