Today I am going to look at the role of insulin in weight loss.
Insulin regulates your body's blood sugar levels.
It does this by regulating whether your body uses or stores the energy from carbohydrates.
When your blood sugar levels are high insulin is released to convert excess blood sugars into glycogen
(energy stores).
When blood sugar levels drop, insulin levels also drop.
When you eat, your body converts digestible carbohydrates into glucose (also known as blood sugar) which is used by your body as an immediate
source of energy.
When blood sugars levels start to drop, the amount of insulin released also drops and blood sugars level begin to stabilise.
Higher blood sugar levels leads to high insulin levels.
Increase in Hunger level
Decrease in Energy levels
Prevents your body from burning up its fat stores
Increases Fat Storage
When you eat foods high in sugar (one form of carbohydrate, sometimes referred to as simple carbs) - such as cakes, sweets, fruit juice, sugary drinks and refined foods like white bread, white pasta and white rice - your pancreas goes into overtime to produce the insulin necessary for all this blood sugar to be used for energy.
When insulin levels are high, glucose is removed from the blood and excess glucose is stored as energy stores.
Unless your body uses these energy stores, they essentially turn into body fat.
It is impossible to burn fat whilst having high levels of insulin in your system.
So the important message for weight loss and fat burning is that high insulin levels prevent fat burning.
Maintaining blood sugar levels is the key to weight loss and fat burning as it keeps your energy levels constant, it prevents hunger pangs and it allows your body to access its glycogen stores (fat stores) as a source of energy when needed.
I hope this brief explanation will help you in your weight loss.
Regards
Stephen Hart
If you want a more scientific explanation then have a look at this page. It is not a sales page.
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