Insulin

Quick info about Insulin

Insulin is one of the most powerful anabolic agents in the world. Screw up with this stuff, and you die. You will go into a coma and die. And we are talking about simply taking too much of this stuff once. This drug needs to be treated with caution.

Insulin is a protein secreted by the pancreas that acts on the liver to stimulate the formation of glycogen from glucose and to inhibit the conversion of non-carbohydrates into glucose. Insulin also promotes facilitated diffusion of glucose through cells with insulin receptors, and, of course, this means muscle tissue. Another mechanism by which insulin is anabolic is via increasing your body's IGF (Insulin-like Growth Factor) levels. IGF is an extremely anabolic hormone.

Another unexpected aspect of insulin use is its ability to increase both LH (Leutenizing Hormone) and FSH (Follicle Stimulating Hormone), both of which—in turn—stimulate testosterone production. Diet is the key to it all. You need to have enough protein in order to build muscle, regardless of how much insulin you take.

Insulin puts your protein balance into a much more beneficial state, and concomitantly lowers protein degradation by inhibition of the lysosomal pathway (this is its anti-catabolic effect) and raises protein synthesis (this is its anabolic effect). Insulin can efficiently utilize a great deal of protein above and beyond what your body normally could, and that if you should decide to use insulin, you should be taking in at least 2.2g/kg of bodyweight, and preferably 3­4.5g/kg of bodyweight.

There are 5 different types of insulin we'll look at, and from them, we'll pick the type which will best suit our purposes of building muscle:

• Humalog (Insulin lispro inj.) is the fastest acting insulin available
• Humulin-R (Regular Insulin) has a short duration of effect
• Humulin-N (Insulin Isophane) is intermediate length insulin
• Humulin-U(Medium Zinc Suspension) is another intermediate length insulin
• Humulin-U, utalente (Prolonged Zinc Suspension) is long acting insulin

(*there are also blends available of two or more of these types of insulin, in varying ratios of long:short or anything in-between)

Our next best choice for injectable insulin is Humulin-R, so that's what we're going to be using. Humulin R is available without a prescription, from any pharmacy. This stuff has a fairly rapid onset and peak, ergo it is much easier to deal with than the other forms of insulin available...some last very long, or have varying peaks and spikes throughout their duration, and as such are just too difficult to monitor and control.

The first and most obvious way to utilize insulin for its anabolic effect is to take a little bit with each meal, possibly 1-2iu's up to 5-6x a day (insulin is measured in international units, not mgs as is common with anabolic steroids). The second way you can use it is to take 1 iu of insulin with your post workout meal, eventually working up to 1iu/10kgs of bodyweight.

The other thing you don't want to do is use regular needles to inject insulin. You NEED insulin pins to accurately dose this stuff; remember, too much can be deadly, and the syringes you would use to inject steroids are too big to measure out units of insulin. Insulin is given via a subcutaneous injection (below the skin but above the muscle), and regular needles are just too big to do that.