Re: Insulin FAQ
Insulin is extremely easy to get a hold of, and it will help you gain mass. It won't help you cut, if anything it will hinder the cutting process because insulin works to increase the size of both muscle AND fatty tissues equally as well. Depending on the quality of the carbohydrates you use (that is to say, if you have a shitty diet or not) insulin can help to hypertrophy your FAT cells before your muscle cells.
I should also point out that the likelyhood of becoming insulin dependant from taking insulin is very slim. Yes, taking insulin causes cells which are already "full" to become insulin resistant in order to prevent themselves from taking in any excess material which they cannot support. However, long term use of insulin will only make you more insulin dependant if you start using it as frequently as an insulin dependant diabetic (that is to say, after every meal, after every carbohydrate uptake), and furthermore, that is not only infeasable but it's probably fatal unless you do some very careful calculations each time. There's also no reason to do this when your body can already produce the insulin it needs for these purposes on its own.
If you already have type 2 diabetes, that is to say, you are not insulin dependant but have heavy insulin resistance already, you may or may not become insulin dependant if your insulin resistance increases. But this is as a result of your condition, not from taking insulin. Insulin usage when you are not insulin dependant AND A TYPE 2 DIABETIC may or may not aggrivate your insulin resistance.
It should NOT have an effect if you are not type 2 diabetic to begin with.
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