Reducing your body fat levels is one of the best ways to improve your whole -
body insulin sensitivity because as your body composition improves, your cells become more responsive to insulin, allowing for the proper and healthy disposal of glucose.
Not exact matches
Also, it's a known saying that you need to cut your carbs
because even when people who can partition nutrients more effectively and have great
insulin sensitivity, eating more carbs will lower their
insulin sensitivity and change the regime of functioning of their
body to one of someone less physically capable.
So the main reason why bodybuilders need to focus on improving their
insulin sensitivity is
because without it, their
bodies will tend to store more nutrients as fat instead of using them as fuel for the muscles.
Furthermore, and partially
because of their excellent
insulin sensitivity and
body composition, Kitavans had significantly lower fasting plasma leptin levels than healthy Swedes.
You see, dietary fats play a vital role in the
body because they're needed for a variety of physiological processes like cell maintenance, hormone production,
insulin sensitivity, and more.
People with higher
body fat tend to do better on higher fat / lower carb diets
because of their lower
insulin sensitivity.
Therefore, it is not surprising to find that the muscle hypertrophy resulting from strength training was associated with the increases in whole -
body insulin sensitivity we observed,
because skeletal muscle constitutes the target tissue where most of the
insulin - stimulated glucose uptake takes place [34].
These metabolic alterations include the inability of normal tissues to take up blood glucose
because of their decreased
sensitivity or decreased responsiveness to
insulin; an increased protein degradation combined with a decreased protein synthesis; finally an increased activity of the enzymes involved in degradation and mobilization of lipids in
body fat cells.