Nat, could you have a look at my post in the 'best of' forum 'scared to eat fat'. You seem to have a pretty good handle on gluconeogenesis. But while I'm here , I'd also like to pick your brains about how important insulin is to amino acid uptake . A couple of the biochem sites I've wandered across have mentioned that basically amino acid uptake is an insulin moderated process . I've been eating about 25g of carbs /day for the last 3 months , adequate protein and heaps of fat of all types and I was gradually losing lbm . Recently (about a week) I've started doing more serious weights , and I'm putting it back on . I can see it . I'm taking 3 gms of creatine /day What you say about cardio makes sense to me . I don't do it at all. Is there any reason to, apart from the one you mentioned about some curious concern about not being fair dinkum . In fact the reading I've been doing on the HGH release mechanism triggered by resistance exertion seems to suggest really short (say three very slow - one minute -reps of a particular exercise) sessions several times a day, every day. So this is what I've been doing. You don't even come close to working a sweat up. I just stop whatever I'm doing in the office or the workshop and swing or press ( l only do passive body weight excercises - handstands , pressups, pullups etc. ) for that three minutes. No sweat , but boy the heartrate goes up. What do you think of this very short , very frequent workout approach to building muscle. I'm not taking glutamine yet, but I probably will . I was a bit concerned about it's gluconeogenetic tendencies. As you've probably guessed, I'm a bit insulin phobic, but as far as I can understand the lower your insulin , the longer you'll live , All OTBEqual. It's that simple. That's why I L.Carb. I know it's working because I feel so much better ,even when I was losing the mass. But I'd rather be a hunk, so the weights are obvious. If the glutamine's not going to do me any insulin harm then I'll seize it's muscle building benefits withour hesitation.
A few of the body building sites I've checked out warn about not re-feeding high carbs a couple of days a week, because you WILL lose LBM . I'm not doing either , so they are wrong , but their reasoning seemed pretty plausible to me . Perhaps you can explain to me how you can do weights effectively with zilch muscle or liver glycogen and very low insulin .Insulin is claimed to be necessary for amimo acid uptake. I mean ,insulin is used as a supplementary anabolic hormone by some of these wackos. The price people will pay to lood good naked. I don't want to pay any price apart from 10 minutes of muscular discomfort every day, but hey, that just makes me feel more alive.
So can I put on muscle , keep it on and seriously low carb for life , without any health risks. What do you think?
Also are there any health risks in the low carb canon in using creatine. e.g. blood sugar , insulin spikes etc.?
cheers,
Stuart
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