what's your optimal dose? i've just started using it at the recommendation of a doctor friend and it's making me feel like shit (often nauseous and tired).Metformin is my best friend.
I have been using it for years and I credit it with me being able to eat carbs like a normal human (well, bodybuilder) and not get fat.
what's your optimal dose? i've just started using it at the recommendation of a doctor friend and it's making me feel like shit (often nauseous and tired).
I don't see any mentions of this topic here
I don't see any mentions of this topic here really, anyone here IR and how to battle this? can you be IR if you take insulin, I did when I in early 20s just to get big, how to reverse it
Right, gluconeogenesis. Protein can be converted to glucose although it's not nearly as efficient. The body is going to hold on to calories. Then convert extra glucose to fat.The current theory is that glucose, not insulin, causes insulin resistance. Insulin is actually trying to reduce glucose and thus reduce insulin resistance, so the term itself is misleading.
It's all diet and it doesn't mean carbohydrate intake causes it either. You can consume large amounts of carbohydrates, even sugars, as long as those carbs are replenishing depleted glycogen. You can become insulin resistant from eating too much protein, as this is easily converted into glucose. Eating too little fat is probably one of the most common causes, the less fat you eat, the MORE carbs and protein you eat, there is no way around this, it's just how it works.
I would say that as a rule of thumb, it's overeating in general that causes insulin resistance but what ultimately causes overeating is a bit paradoxical: undereating is what generally leads to overeating.
A consistent, healthy, balanced diet is the long term solution.
I just couldn't find any topics, I only search titles
Anyway I'm lean 10-11% bf and am insulin resistant, A1C and blood glucose are all goood tho, so it's a sneaky one
I may have to start taking metformin then
If A1C is normal why do you think you are insulin resistant? There is physiological insulin resistance also that isn't pathological.I just couldn't find any topics, I only search titles
Anyway I'm lean 10-11% bf and am insulin resistant, A1C and blood glucose are all goood tho, so it's a sneaky one
I may have to start taking metformin then
If A1C is normal why do you think you are insulin resistant? There is physiological insulin resistance also that isn't pathological.
So I'm a bit confused, if your blood sugar and a1c are normal, you think (or your doctor does?) that you are insulin resistant because you have low shbg?
The current theory is that glucose, not insulin, causes insulin resistance. Insulin is actually trying to reduce glucose and thus reduce insulin resistance, so the term itself is misleading.
It's all diet and it doesn't mean carbohydrate intake causes it either. You can consume large amounts of carbohydrates, even sugars, as long as those carbs are replenishing depleted glycogen. You can become insulin resistant from eating too much protein, as this is easily converted into glucose. Eating too little fat is probably one of the most common causes, the less fat you eat, the MORE carbs and protein you eat, there is no way around this, it's just how it works.
I would say that as a rule of thumb, it's overeating in general that causes insulin resistance but what ultimately causes overeating is a bit paradoxical: undereating is what generally leads to overeating.
A consistent, healthy, balanced diet is the long term solution.
Testosterone use is also a cause of low SHBG... I think your doctor may be a quack, either that, or he is google. Come on man...Yea, he says low shbg is always linked to insulin resistance