I am trying to find out why it would be bad to eat foods that spike your insulin? Mark Sisson (the primal blueprint) gives the insulin spikes as a reason for not eating roots or tubers (potatoes included) on the paleo diet. There are so many foods that would fall into the same category as roots/tubers because of this.
I’ve also read that insulin spikes are good post workout?
Any help?
Sasha
the goal is to keep your hormones in balance and insulin is a storage hormone. a spike in insulin tells the body that you have plenty of energy (glucose/blood sugar) right now and to start storing the excess (in fat cells) and stop burning fat. just like gravity…what goes up, must come down…crash, boom, bang.
the only reason i can think of for a post workout insulin spike is to keep the body from becoming catabolic (eating it’s own muscle for fuel/recovery) BUT in my opinion….if you are feeding, resting, working out properly (not hours at a time) there shouldn’t be a concern. you can definitely feed post workout without whacking out your insulin
But from a Paleo eating perspective there are a lot of insulin spiking foods that could technically be eaten on the diet (ie; root veggies, fruit).
Its not like paleolithic man was avoiding those foods. I have been researching native edible plants in California (where I live). Wild potatoes and many root veggies are native to North America.
So you’re saying its purely from an energy perspective (sugar = energy crash) that we would want to avoid those foods?
Sasha
not all root veggies or fruits are created equally as far as the insulin produced. afaik when eaten with other foods the insulin response is “buffered” ie; strawberries + almond butter.
not primarily an energy perspective a hormonal balance perspective….which leads to stable mood, energy, hunger/satiation.
there is a difference between insulin response/production and an insulin “spike/flood”… you can flood your bloodstream with insulin not only by the content of your meal but amount eaten and too long or little of a period between eating.
if you had a campfire and you put paper in it…poof it’s gone and you need to continually feed the fire paper to keep it going….put a nice piece of wood on there and it will burn unattended for a lot longer before you need to add another log. so you want to feed your fire (body) wood not paper. a white potato is converted to glucose a LOT faster than strawberries on top of being double the calories…so you get twice the calories that goes poof like paper LOL
I am trying to find out why it would be bad to eat foods that spike your insulin? Mark Sisson (the primal blueprint) gives the insulin spikes as a reason for not eating roots or tubers (potatoes included) on the paleo diet. There are so many foods that would fall into the same category as roots/tubers because of this.
I’ve also read that insulin spikes are good post workout?
Any help?
Sasha
the goal is to keep your hormones in balance and insulin is a storage hormone.
a spike in insulin tells the body that you have plenty of energy (glucose/blood sugar) right now and to start storing the excess (in fat cells) and stop burning fat.
just like gravity…what goes up, must come down…crash, boom, bang.
the only reason i can think of for a post workout insulin spike is to keep the body from becoming catabolic (eating it’s own muscle for fuel/recovery) BUT in my opinion….if you are feeding, resting, working out properly (not hours at a time) there shouldn’t be a concern.
you can definitely feed post workout without whacking out your insulin
mikki
i dunno why it cut it off…
the first part said that the goal is to keep your hormones in balance and that insulin is a storage hormone.
mikki
apparently it isn’t cutting it off….it just doesn’t like google chrome (had to look in firefox) sorry for the repetition
mikki
But from a Paleo eating perspective there are a lot of insulin spiking foods that could technically be eaten on the diet (ie; root veggies, fruit).
Its not like paleolithic man was avoiding those foods. I have been researching native edible plants in California (where I live). Wild potatoes and many root veggies are native to North America.
So you’re saying its purely from an energy perspective (sugar = energy crash) that we would want to avoid those foods?
Sasha
not all root veggies or fruits are created equally as far as the insulin produced. afaik when eaten with other foods the insulin response is “buffered” ie; strawberries + almond butter.
not primarily an energy perspective a hormonal balance perspective….which leads to stable mood, energy, hunger/satiation.
there is a difference between insulin response/production and an insulin “spike/flood”…
you can flood your bloodstream with insulin not only by the content of your meal but amount eaten and too long or little of a period between eating.
if you had a campfire and you put paper in it…poof it’s gone and you need to continually feed the fire paper to keep it going….put a nice piece of wood on there and it will burn unattended for a lot longer before you need to add another log. so you want to feed your fire (body) wood not paper.
a white potato is converted to glucose a LOT faster than strawberries on top of being double the calories…so you get twice the calories that goes poof like paper LOL
mikki