Eat Carbs, Stay Lean
Protect your waistline from cheat meals and high-carb binges with this ingredient. Here's how.
Sometimes they're planned: "I'm going to stick to my diet plan all week, but on Sunday mornings I'm going eat a stack of pancakes!"
Sometimes they're unplanned: "My in-laws invited us over for pasta tonight and it would be rude to refuse their food."
Planned or not, cheat meals happen. But there's a way to lessen the damage and even get cheat meals to work for you. Just take four capsules of cyanidin 3-glucoside (Buy at Biotest) (C3G) before the cheats. Think of it as dietary insurance.
Peripheral Insulin Sensitivity and "Bad" Carbs
Most of the effects of C3G are realized in days and weeks in the form of increased muscle gains, bigger muscle pumps, enhanced recovery, and fat burning, but those effects are precipitated by what happens in the minutes after you take it.
It's those quick-acting effects that make it such a good insurance policy against crappy carbs. Minutes after you take it, C3G increases your peripheral insulin sensitivity, which involves how readily cells in your periphery tissue (muscle and fat) absorb glucose or sugar.
If peripheral insulin sensitivity is high, you can eat lots of pancakes or pasta and you won't experience a large insulin release. Carbs are preferentially shuttled off to muscle instead of being stored as fat. And, because insulin levels remain low, fatty acids continue to be released.
It's more complicated than that and involves a host of metabolic pathways, but suffice it to say, increased insulin sensitivity before a meal, especially a meal high in "garbage" carbs, is a good thing.
What Do I Need to Do?
People who use C3G daily to build muscle, increase exercise performance, enhance recovery, and burn fat generally take four capsules 30 minutes before they start their pre-workout supplementation. On non-workout days, they take four capsules 30 minutes before their biggest meal.
But you can also use C3G to give yourself a little insurance policy against cheat meals. Just take one serving of C3G – Indigo-3G Nutrient Partitioning Agent (Buy at Biotest) – 30 minutes before eating. For those who already use Indigo-3G, this would be in addition to your normal daily dosage. Maple syrup is optional.
