pimg class=” size-full wp-image-54884 alignright” src=”http://cdn.marksdailyapple.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/commitment.jpg” alt=”” width=”320″ height=”213″ /Insulin does a lot of important things for us. It pulls glucose from the blood and fritters it away into our cells to be burned for energy or stored as glycogen. It a title=”Dear Mark: Why Hyperglycemia Is Bad and Those Stubborn Final Pounds” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/dear-mark-why-hyperglycemia-is-bad-and-those-stubborn-final-pounds/”prevents hyperglycemic toxicity/a to neurons, pancreatic cells, the arterial walls and the generation of excessive levels of reactive oxygen species. It even a title=”Effect of insulin on human skeletal muscle protein synthesis is modulated by insulin-induced changes in muscle blood flow and amino acid availability” href=”http://ajpendo.physiology.org/content/291/4/E745″ target=”_blank”promotes muscle protein synthesis/a and helps augment muscular hypertrophy, especially following resistance training. Clearly, we need insulin. Without it, we#8217;d die, as type 1 diabetics readily do without an exogenous source./p
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pBut insulin has other effects, like inhibiting the breakdown of body fat into free fatty acids for energy production. Although locking fatty acids into […]

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