THE APPLE CIDER VINEGAR SOLUTION?
One of the most effective things you can do to optimize body composition is to improve insulin sensitivity. It’ll be easier to build muscle and lose fat if you’re more insulin sensitive. It’s easy to do by using apple cider vinegar at the right time.
Insulin is a storage/anabolic hormone. Anabolic means “to add.” It’s released mostly in response to an increase in blood sugar. We could say that insulin is triggered by the need to lower blood glucose back down to normal levels, and it does so by favoring the entry of glucose (and other nutrients) into the “storage facilities” like muscle cells, fat cells, the liver, and brain.
As such, if you’re more insulin sensitive, you won’t need to produce as much insulin in response to an increase in blood sugar levels, and if you’re resistant, any increase in blood glucose can really jack up insulin release.
This is important because the more of a hormone you produce or release, the longer it’ll take for that hormone to go back down to baseline levels.
Insulin, a storage hormone, directly increases the storage of nutrients into the various reserves, including fat cells. So if insulin is high and there’s a lot of fat present at the same time, you’ll increase fat storage.
The Other Part of the Equation
Elevated insulin reduces fat mobilization. As long as insulin stays elevated, you’ll be inefficient at losing fat. If you’re more sensitive to insulin, you don’t need to produce as much to get the job done, which means it doesn’t stay high for as long, and you can spend more time being in a fat loss state.
A Simple Way to Optimize Insulin Sensitivity
One simple thing to do is to take apple cider vinegar about 15-20 minutes before your meals.