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Your Anabolic Powerhouse – Maximizing Your Insulin Response

Insulin is one of the body’s most anabolic musclebuilding hormones. More specifically, it’s a hormone released by the pancreas in response to nutrient availability. A meal high in carbohydrates, protein or both causes a rise in circulating insulin. Insulin acts on its target cells to increase uptake and storage of key musclebuilding nutrients. Insulin increases nutrient transporters to shuttle glucose and amino acids into the muscle cell, while preventing the catabolism of those nutrients stored as carbohydrates, protein or fat. As such, an increase in insulin levels creates an optimal anabolic environment favorable to muscle growth. Manipulating this natural metabolic response is all the more critical immediately after your workout.

Providing your muscles with protein and carbohydrates just before a workout prevents muscle protein from being used for energy. But the post-workout period is even more important when it comes to maximizing muscle growth. Intensely trained muscles are starving for nutrients to fuel muscle protein synthesis, otherwise known as muscle hypertrophy or growth, particularly in the form of amino acids from protein, and glucose from simple carbohydrates.

Given the damaged and depleted state of muscle cells after an intense workout, your body is more likely to synthesize muscle and glycogen instead of building up fat stores, even if you take in a large amount of simple carbohydrates. This is a very important point. The popular misconception is that a large serving of fast-absorbing carbohydrates causes fat stores to increase. Indeed, if you consumed those same types of calories in large amounts at a time when the muscle isn’t trying to recover from exercise, such as in the rested state, fat cells may be more likely to store those surplus calories through fatty acid synthesis. However, in the post-workout period, muscles recover and synthesize protein and glycogen. In fact, a large post-workout serving of simple carbohydrates puts your muscles into a favorable anabolic state. This means that the body’s extra insulin release, when timed correctly, promotes muscle mass. A post-workout increase in plasma insulin levels sensitizes your muscle cells and increases nutrient uptake and storage, creating an optimal anabolic environment primed for rapid muscle gains.

Be sure to take advantage of your muscles’ post-workout hypersensitivity to insulin and amino acid uptake. A good way to capitalize on this potent musclebuilding window is to consume a large quantity of high-glycemic carbohydrates – carbohydrates like the fast-absorbing, HPLC certified dextrose in Cell-Tech Hardcore Pro Series. HPLC is a biochemical, analytical method used in lab testing to identify components of a compound and test for purity. The spike in blood sugar levels will cause your pancreas to release insulin, which hypersensitizes your muscle cells for extreme post-workout nutrient absorption.

That’s why Cell-Tech Hardcore Pro Series is so critical for your post-workout shake. Cell-Tech Hardcore Pro Series is so advanced it was shown in a 28-day scientific study to be 26 times (4.34 vs. 0.16 lbs.) more powerful than regular creatine for building pure mass!

But there’s even more scientific research and hard clinical data supporting insulin manipulation and muscle growth. Researchers and scientists at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center recently conducted further research into the effects of insulin on the Anabolic Transcription Factor, ATF-4. Researchers identified ATF-4 as playing a central role in the hormonal regulation of amino acid and protein anabolism by coupling amino acid uptake and synthesis. More particularly as it pertains to insulin response, researchers in the 2007 study identified insulin as a trigger for ATF-4 modulation, in turn promoting an optimal anabolic response.^▲

To optimize your natural insulin response and take full advantage of the musclebuilding properties of your natural anabolic powerhouse, follow every workout with a serving of ANABOLIC HALO™ – the world’s most hardcore anabolic musclebuilding supplement. ANABOLIC HALO is cryogenically enhanced to manipulate insulin and modulate ATF-4 while simultaneously triggering four more critical growth-inducing elements to force your freakiest muscle gains ever. Find out more now!

^▲ Adams, M. Christopher (2007). Role of the Transcription Factor ATF4 in the Anabolic Actions of Insulin and the Anti-anabolic Actions of Glucocorticoids. The Journal of Biological Chemistry, Vol. 282, No. 23, pp16744 -16753.

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