Quote Originally Posted by GearHeaded View Post
well you don't get to looking like a 280 pound jacked Fouad Abiad without insulin in some form or another,, even though he does not take exogenous insulin anymore , he's still getting like 100iu per day naturally through his high carb diet (add his HGH into the mix and he's now getting even more natural production)..

insulin is most definitely 'anabolic' and builds muscles .. if we were all type 1 diabetics and didn't produce insulin and didn't take it exogenously (we would die, but besides the point) we would all be like 80 pound skeletons and have no muscle mass at all. you simply can't build muscle without insulin..


wither you get that insulin from a bottle or from your own pancreas, it does not matter, insulin is insulin . just because Arnold did not inject exogenous insulin does NOT mean his physique was built without insulin . he's no different then Brandon Curry who injects insulin, because its all the same. all the muscle on both those physiques were built in one way or the other via the aide of insulin .. again you can't build muscle without it (thats how proteins, amino acids, glycogen, water, and nutrients get into muscle cells .. by insulin).

now of course with exogenous insulin you can get a super compensation effect that can't be achieved with natty production. you can also time things exactly how you want.. so your going to be able to build more overall muscle and load more glycogen and nutrients with exogenous insulin use. but again wither your natty or not or take insulin or not , insulin is critical in the muscle building process in one way or the other
Very good way of putting it.

So question here for you, for someone running high amounts of insulin, would you recommend them running a decent amount of fat to ensure everything is recovering properly or would you keep the fat low in hopes of not gaining fat, I know this is the conventional way of doing things but I also know that a lot of people don't follow this ideology.