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Table of Contents
Introduction ............................................................. 3
The Dieters Paradox ............................................. 7
The Power of Insulin .............................................. 8
Glucose Transporters ............................................ 11
Sensitivity VS. Resistance ................................... 12
Post-Workout Folklore ........................................ 16
Post-Workout Redefined .................................... 17
The Perfect Post-Workout Recovery .............. 22
The Ultimate Formula ........................................... 23
References ................................................................ 29
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Introduction
I DIDNT ALWAYS LOOK LIKE THIS:
In fact, for a long time I was
fat, confused and frustrated
with my body. Youve heard
this classic story before: I
was the fat kid. I was very
overweight and I was shel-
tered. In a small town, in a
small school, no one both-
ered to point it out. But once
I entered public school, I was
quickly made aware of my
fatness when a fellow stu-
dent stood up, pointed at me,
and yelled,
Youre fat!
It was from that point on I became painfully aware of how my body
looked. I had fat hanging from my back, stretch marks, a gut that
sagged over my pants and, Im ashamed to admit this, I had what I can
only describe as banana nipples.
I did what everyone does, I started cutting calories, eating only salads
at lunch, and trying whatever I thought would rid me of the fat suit. De-
spite my efforts, it didnt work. In fact, it only provoked more ridicule,
because even though I ate less and exercised more, I still looked fat.
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The next logical step was weight lifting. Finally, my shape started to
change but my body still retained the thick layer of fat on my stomach,
back and even arms. I still didnt look like the fitness magazine cover
models even though I tried every new diet they recommended. I wasnt
where I knew I could be.
The most important thing that I learned in all my early research was
the role of insulin in muscle growth and body fat storage. Several years
of constant research as well as trial and error went by but finally I did
it. I managed to discover the way to manipulate my nutrition on a daily
basis to get stronger, bigger, AND leaner at the same time.
I want to share with you some of those secrets I discovered If you are
reading this report, I know a few things about you.
You have more discipline, dedication and drive than 99% of the
population;
You want an edge to ensure the work you put in gets results.
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Put simply: Most supplements are junk. And with each new trend
comes more junk. Recently, the big trend in the fitness industry has
been insulin sensitizers. Yes, these supplements do make your body
more sensitive to insulin but the problem is that many consumers do
not understand the fundamental science of what being more insulin
sensitive will do
When you take an insulin sensitizer, all of your tissue becomes more
receptive to insulin. This includes muscle as well as the body fat youre
trying to lose. The bottom line is that if you dont control your diet
while on these supplements, you will not see results. Insulin sensitizers
demand you eat a sub-optimal diet just to keep from getting fatter!
And critical new science surfaces every day that you need to know to
get maximum results from all those grueling hours you spend in the
gym.
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Properly utilizing insulin during a key time will help you achieve the fat
loss and muscle gain youve been trying so hard to attain.
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But youre worried youll lose muscle or just struggle to get rid of the
stubborn fat.
If you follow the typical advice, however, youll quickly experience the
struggle as your body begins to fight back.
For example, as you cut calories, your body responds by lowering your
metabolic rate. The lower the caloric count, the lower your metabolic
rate. This produces symptoms of fatigue, mood swings, and irritability.
Worst of all, you can lose muscle mass while you still gain body fat!
Your body will sacrifice muscle mass and bone density and replace
them with fat. In its quest to adapt and achieve balance, your body will
put you right back where you started.
Unfortunately the fitness industry is still endorsing the old ways. Many
expertsand I use the term looselycling to research that is extremely
outdated or simply inappropriate.
The bottom line is that newer, more accurate and more specific re-
search is being ignored. Understanding and utilizing this research
can allow you to not only preserve or grow muscle but get leaner and
healthier in the process.
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The main role of insulin is to put the body into an anabolic state. In
other words, it signals growth and stops all catabolic processes, even
healthy ones. This may seem like great news for your muscles but the
problem with insulin is that this growth is not controlled or directed at
any specific tissue. Insulin triggers the growth of everything. It will help
fat tissue grow just as much as muscle, if not more.
Insulins action is beneficial that it wants to make things grow and help
initiate repair, but it also shuts down critical protective processes to
get this done. Insulin is anti-catabolic, which sounds great to those
of you resistance training, but a large number of the effects that let
us achieve our goals of being stronger, bigger, faster are all catabolic.
Insulin shuts these down, which will effectively decrease your ability to
build mass, lose fat, and may even make your cells sick.
Insulin at Work
Eating a banana demonstrates how insulin works and how it can work
against you.
When you eat a banana, glucose is quickly released into the
blood stream.
Glucose then causes the release of insulin;
When present, insulin will stop the mobilization of body fat
Insulin also decreases the amount of fatty acids burned for
energy
Insulin forces the consumed glucose to be burned for energy
and stores the rest, which can accumulate in body fat stores.
Instead of using your stores of fat, insulin makes your body
burn the banana as fuel
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As you can see, insulin can be your best friend or your worst enemy. It
all depends on how you utilize insulin to achieve your fitness goals.
But if we use the power of insulin properly we reap the following re-
wards:
Recover faster
Grow muscle
Get stronger
Lose more fat, consistently
And overall feel better
First, lets take a look at the science behind why timing is so crucial for
insulin.
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Glucose Transporters
These are the predominant transporters in muscle tissue and they can
play a direct role in muscle growth and performance. GLUT4 and GLUT
12 act like switches that, when flipped on, allow a cell to absorb more
glucose. The problem is that fat cells also have this ability, allowing
glucose to help grow muscle and fat simultaneously. An even bigger
problem is that muscle has a limited capacity to absorb glucose while
fat has an unlimited capacity.
The good news is that it is possible to trigger GLUT 4 and GLUT 12 spe-
cifically in muscle tissue. Whats more, you can time it just right so that
fat is less sensitive to absorbing glucose. Muscle will soak up all the
glucose it can while fat will reject the absorption. This can be achieved
by learning about insulin sensitivity.
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How do you avoid this? By creating the ideal environment for your
body where you have sensitive muscle cells and resistant fat cells.
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Resistance Training
Timing
Post-Workout Supplementation
Using these powerful tools, you will be able to allow your muscles to
soak up glucose and slow or even block fat from doing the same. Lets
take a look at our main Super Power.
Resistance training, our first tool for maximizing the benefits of insulin,
truly is a super power.
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But to really amplify your results and ensure you dont get fat spill over.
We need to look at Timing
Timing is Everything
Your body becomes more sensitive and resistant to insulin during cer-
tain times of the day.
And it all has to do with circadian rhythms. When you first wake up
muscle and fat tissue are at their most insulin sensitive points, but as
the day continues both tissues become more insulin resistant.
This is why everything youve ever been told about breakfast is wrong.
You want to limit your carbohydrate intake in the morning. This will not
only allow you to stay in a fat mobilization mode, but will help prevent
the storing of new body fat in fat cells.
By far, the most important time to ingest the right amount and the
right type of carbohydrates is following an afternoon session of resis-
tance training. What Im about to tell you may go against everything
youve ever been told about post-workout nutrition.
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Lets take a look at the old broscience that modern day experts are
pushing on to the public.
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Post-Workout Folklore
Now Im sure youre reading this report thinking, I know all about the
importance of post-workout recovery.
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Post-Workout Redefined
Lets tackle this point by point.
You should wait nearly ONE HOUR after youve lifted before you con-
sume any post-workout nutrition.
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We know, however, that the poison is in the dose and this is the case with
ROS. It turns out that ROS production and the miniscule damage they
cause is actually necessary for maximum muscle growth (Ristow 2010).
When small, targeted doses of a substance cause huge benefits, but
long-term exposure causes damage, we call this hormetic: a little is good,
a lot is bad.
The ROS build up from resistance training is strictly hormetic through its
effect on a process known as autophagy.
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Research also shows that the greater the rise in cortisol during a training
session, the greater the gains (West 2012). Thats right: the more stress
you can cause your body during training, the more benefit. But as with
the autophagic benefits above, by spiking your insulin levels too soon af-
ter training, we can actually turn cortisol evil, as the combination of high
insulin levels and high cortisol levels can accelerate the storage of body
fat (Gathercole 2011).
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The key is to trigger a short yet BIG insulin spike. You dont want a
small and steady supply of insulin throughout the day. You want a
giant surge of insulin (or surges depending on your goals). This cannot
be emphasized enough. A large insulin spike will help to trigger ana-
bolic processes in the muscles and prevent the catabolic processes
from becoming destructive!
But heres the catch. We want the insulin but not necessarily a ton of
carbs. Typically this just isnt possible, but Im going to show you exact-
ly how to pull off this trick.
We want the insulin spike to shut down the catabolic processes and
then increase the protein synthesis. But we dont want to over load
our body with carbs and cause a spill over.
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Now with this big insulin spike weve dramatically increased our pro-
tein synthesis. But its all about getting the right type of protein.
Your typical whey protein or EAA load isnt going to cut it.
Now this doesnt mean you need to run out and buy a different pro-
tein powder. In fact Im going to show you here in a minute how to
supercharge your existing protein powder so that you not only get a
MASSIVE insulin spike but your protein will get predigested into di
and tri peptides.
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Now its time to get a MASSIVE insulin spike with easily digestible di
and tri protein peptides. In order to do this were going to need supple-
mentation.
Once weve had our post workout shake then we can work to restore
muscle glycogen over the next four hours. Using carbs that are as close
to pure glucose as possible; i.e. potatoes and rice.
You have a lot of flexibility here. If youre on a Paleo diet the recom-
mendations in this report are especially important for you. The typical
Paleo diet makes it extremely difficult to get the needed insulin spike.
But with the formula Im about to share. You can live the Paleo or glu-
ten-free lifestyle and get all the post-workout benefits to get stronger,
bigger, and leaner.
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Heres the Ultimate Formula that you can add to ANY protein power to
make the perfect post-workout recovering shake.
Leucine
If there was one essential amino acid that I say is a must. It would be
Leucine. Its the only dietary amino acid that has the capacity to stimu-
late muscle protein synthesis (Etzel, 2004).
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4-Hydroxyisoleucine
(From Fenugreek Seed Extract)
Although Fenugreek is often associated with unproven testosterone
boosting effects, it has a number of proven benefits including:
Protein Enzymes:
Pancreatin, Papain & Protease
Although the fitness industry has been heavily promoting the use of
EAA supplements, research has shown that they tend to have the fol-
lowing properties:
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Put simply, these digestive protein enzymes will turn your average, run
of the mill protein powder into a powerhouse of nutrition for recovery.
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Trehalose
The addition of Trehalose allows the cells to continue to clean them-
selves out. As an active person, you need this to keep your cellular sys-
tem active and healthy. As it supports this response, trehalose leads to
a quicker recovery and is also touted as being an immune booster with
anti-aging effects (Sakar et al, 2007) and appears to block the ability of
fat cells to store more fat (Arai 2010 & 2013).
Glycyrrhiza Foetida
Do you know what the true fat burning organ of the body is?
Also preventing the spill over of glycogen into fat stores. Allowing you
to eat carbohydrates to maximize glycogen stores but without worry-
ing about fat spillover.
Now you could go out and try to assemble these ingredients yourself,
but Id like to introduce you to
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Youre guaranteed to
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It contains the right amounts and the right ratios to promote powerful
growth promoting signals in your body. Carb Shock also cleans out cel-
lular garbage that has accumulated during a hard training session. And
most of all creates the ideal environment for growth, repair, and recov-
ery. Lose weight, get lean, and build strength while maximizing muscle
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