Insulin is a complicated hormone, complicated further by the amount of utter nonsense and gibberish that is written about it when it comes to dieting, fat loss and fat gain. And one of the many questions that comes up is this:
If insulin goes up when we eat, storing nutrients and inhibiting fat mobilization, how do we actually lose fat during a calorie deficit? Does insulin eventually just drop so fat burning can resume? How does the glycemic index (GI) impact this? Will eating a lower GI food make a difference compared to a higher GI food?
I think you get the idea. So let me try to address each of this by looking at the impact of insulin on fat loss along with those other issues.
Insulin is a bit Schizophrenic
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