Understanding Insulin as a Messenger, Not Just Storage

The body is a complex system. Think about it like this. Think about it as let's talk about like muscle protein synthesis, right? You have muscle protein breakdown. You have muscle protein synthesis. And this is happening all the time. And you have to keep some type of balance. or if you want to gain size, you push it one direction, you push it, or if you want to lose size, you push it the other direction. The other hormones are not that different. You're always storing fat. You're always storing carbohydrate, and you're always releasing it. It's the balance of that which you have to worry about, and that's where a hypocaloric diet comes in. That's really, in every single metabolic ward study you see, the common denominator between them all is you have to have a hypocaloric diet but you have to find out where that maintenance portion is and then back off a little bit So with insulin it like when we were in Costa Rica and what Brian Walsh said which blew my mind is stop thinking about insulin as a storage hormone Think about it as a like an insulin, uh, as a, as a messenger, right. To tell your body to do certain things. It's going to tell the cells to accept insulin, to accept glucose, but then it's also going to tell the liver to stop pushing so much glucose into the bloodstream. So to say that insulin bad and insulin makes you fat is not right. It can make you fat, but so can cortisol if it's out of control. You know, if all this stuff's out of balance, that's what makes you fat. It's the sum of all the parts, not one single hormone here or there.